No Violation. In the Federal Court of Chicago in January 1930 the U. S. Government won an important suit. For it was decreed that five primary defendants (chief among them: Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, and Texas Co.) and 45 secondary defendants were guilty of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Their guilt lay in the patent pool and cross-licensing system by which they kept unto themselves and licensees the valuable oil-cracking patents. But last week this important anti-trust suit, now in its seventh year, was lost by the Government. The Supreme...
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