["Rival Wireless Systems", The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 04 December 1911, page 10]
RIVAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS.
INTERESTING CLAIM BY MARCONI.
The position with regard to the rival wireless systems seems to be rather complicated. Australia is interested in the litigation that has been going on between the Marconi and other companies, arising from the alleged overlapping of patents, owing to the fact that the Federal Government is establishing high-power stations at Pennant Hills and Fremantle, and intends shortly to put a chain of smaller stations along the eastern coast, and to link up Papua with the mainland.
Interviewed on the subject yesterday, Mr. H. R. Denison, chairman of the Australasian Wireless Co., Ltd., said that the position had become very acute In Great Britain as the result of the judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Parker in connection with an action for infringement instituted by the Marconi Company against the British Radio Telegraph Company. In this judgment Mr. Justice Parker had practically laid it down that all systems using a transformer, which was the basis of Marconi's Patent No. 7777, infringed the Marconi system: in other words, that Marconi absolutely hold a master patent that dominated tbo position.
As a result of that judgment, Mr. Denison said, the Marconi Company practically claimed a monopoly of wireless throughout tbe English-speaking world, and announced that they intended to issue proceedings against all other wireless users. In spite of this, however, the Admiralty contractors, Siemens Bros., Ltd., of London, purchased the rights for Great Britain and certain British colonies of the Telefunken system, in common use on the Continent and other parts of the world, and in consequence of the Marconi Company's statement as to all other systems being an infringement of Marconi's, Siemens Bros. in October last issued a writ against the Marconi Company of Great Britain for an alleged infringement of Professor Braun's patent, taken out in Europe, it was claimed, before Marconi's master-patent was granted. The Marconi Company, on their part, counterclalmed by taking proceedings against Siemens Bros. Yesterday his company had received a cablegram from the Telefunken Company, informing them that the Marconi Company had abandoned its action against Siemens Bros., and had paid all costs. The original proceedings, however, which were instituted by Siemens Bros. against the Marconi Companv had still to be decided before the Courts, and would be watched with some interest. The position in Australia was, of course, largely dependent on the position in Great Britain.
