Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1882 — A Royalty Fight. [ARTICLE]

A Royalty Fight.

St. Paul, Minx,., March 23.—The visit of Mr. Cii»iie< Caluhau, ofChicgo, to this city and Minneapolis to-dav, was, it is understood, for the purpose of demanding of the Minneapolis Harvester Works in the name of C. 11. McCormick, of Chicago, Norman C. Thompson, and Helen A. Gorman, of Itocklord, 111., a royalty of $lO upon each twine binding harvester that said Company has made or will make. This claim is based upon the patents which, after several years of controversy'in the patent office, were in 3880 granted to Marquis L. Gorham, of llockford, and it is claimed by the parties who demand the royalty that thoy own and control all the patents relating to the automatic binding of the bundles of grain. The Minneapolis Harvester Works, the William Peering Company of Chicago; the Champion Eeaper Company, of Springfield, 0., the Easterly Harvester Company, of Mhitew'ater, and all others that are using 1 wine-binders made under the Appleby patents are to bo proceeded against by the parties controlling the Gorhatn patent. The attorneys Who huve been engaged by the McCormick faction are George Harding, of Philadelphia; E. N Dickerson, of New York; M. D. Leggett, of Cleveland, 0., and Parlunsoh & Parkinson, Cincinati. There some eight or ten companies man•ufiicturing under the Appleby patents, and this is perhaps the beginning of the biggest Talent suit on record. Several companies will no doubt, with the close of this season, abandon the manufacture of the Appleby, which will work great hardships to those who have their machines and will not be able for a few years to procure repairs for them. It is evident from the array of legal talent employed by ifee McCormicks that they are fully J repaved to establish their claims.