Pierce v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.

HARTSHORNE, District Judge.

In this patent infringement suit plaintiff is the executrix of the estate of George Washington Pierce, a Harvard University physicist professor, who claims to have invented the first practical commercial system for the control of the electric oscillations, basic to the use of radio transmission. This is alleged substantially to result from the incorporation in his electrical circuit of a piezo-electric crystal, which he claims definitely controls such oscillations under his system alone, and without which crystals such system would not oscillate at all. The six…