Armstrong v. Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corp.

PALMIERI, District Judge.

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT

This suit concerns important discoveries in the radio art. The contribution of the inventor, Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, with respect to all three of the inventions in suit, was a new technique for suppressing noise in radio sig-nalling known as wide band frequency modulation (FM). This has made possible a substantial improvement in the faithfulness of reproduction of sound transmitted by radio and a marked reduction in noise and interference. Distinguished witnesses with outstanding backgrounds in the radio field have supported plaintiff’s…