As famed as the stock pools which used to catapult Radio Corp. of America shares is the patent pool that RCA has had with General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. In the spring of 1930 the Department of Justice set forth to prove the patent pool was in restraint of trade. Last week rather than stand a long and costly trial with the risk of losing the case and being heavily fined, the defendants agreed to mend their set-up as the Government suggested, stoutly insisting nevertheless that they had violated no...
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