Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
WESTINGHOUSE APPEALS.

The Manufacture Of Incandescent Lamps
Becomes Public Property-Not Worried
by the Adverse Decision.
George Westinghouse, Jr., President Of
the Westinghouse Electric Company, in an
interview last night on Justice Bradley's
decision said:
'This decision leaves the Westinghouse
Company just where it was before, and can.
notunder any circumstances affect it ad-
versely; although, ofcourse, we would have
much preferred different result. We have
strong hopes of obtaining favorable deci-
sion from the Supreme Court, on appeal,
but whatever happens our company will
still be able to manufacture and sell incan-
descent electric lamps as freely as it did
before. The worst that can happen is that
the incandescent lamps shall be finally de-
clared public property, as is already the
case with the arc lamp"
'I should be remembered that this deci-
sion affects only one of our many patents.
We own several others, covering essential
details in the manufacture of incandescent
lamps, which We feel confident of sustain
ing, and which all users and makers of
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The strength of our patent position, even
with this decision against us, is evidenced
by the fact that. under its contract with us,
the Thomson-Houston Electric Company
will still have to pay us the same royalties
as before this decision. While the Edison
Company will, if the decision is affirmed by
the Supreme Court destroy the Sawyer
Mann fbrous carbon flament patent, they
will have no patent for the same themselves.
In fact, they will have to face our patents on
the other features of the incandescent lamps.
Therefore, while this decision is against US,
it is not in favor of Mr.. Edison or his pat
ents.
''The business and profits of the Westing-
house Electric Company will not be ad-
versely affected by this decision. On the
contrary, if the impression gets abroad that
the incandescent lamp has become public
property, the demand for incandescent
lighting will be greatly increased, and our
company will come in for its share of the
increase.
Secretary A. T. Rowland, of the West
inghouse Company, expressed his views OF
the opinion last evening. He said, inter
ALA:
''The decision, unless reversed, simply
throws open the manufacture of the incan-
descent lamp to the public. Edison cannot
now bring suit against the company for the
reason that he has no patents for the carbon
flaments, the United States Supreme Court
having decided that they were invalid. On
the whole the opinion is a COM
promise. Should it have been favorable to
our company we should have been in a po-
sition to close Edison up. As it is we are
just in the position we occupied before. We
could not have lost anything; Edison alone
would have suffered. We intend to appeal
against the decision Immediately.
Although the status of the Westinghouse
stock was the principal subject of coversa-
ton in local stock circles yesterday, there
was not very much excitement at call time.
Mr.. Long bid so for % shares and obtained
them. Immediately after Mr.. George B.
Hill offered the stock down in a hundred
share lots to As, at which figure 80 shares
changed hands. The general impression
seemed to be that any downward tendency
which the stock might assume owing to the
adverse decision, would be quickly dis
counted by good buying orders.