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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Protected Patents and Designs.
What Concern is This?
Some results have already been reached
by the International Conference for the
Protection of Industrial Property which
has been in session at Brussels. In the
first place, the period of exclusive rights
previously fixed at six months for patents
and three months for industrial designs,
models and trade-marks has been extend-
ed to a year for patents and four months
for designs and trade-marks. In the next
place, it is agreed that patents cannot
lapse because they are not put in circula-
tion except after a minimum delay of three
years, dating from the first application in
countries where the patent is allowed and
in cases in which the conditions of the
patent do not justify causes of inaction.
Finally, it is resolved that countries sign-
ing the convention shall enjoy reciprocally
the protection accorded by each country
to its own citizens against unfair competi-
tion. The action of the conference, as
will be seen, is clearly in the direction of
safeguarding and extending industrial
property rights.
At a meeting of the Board of Managers
of the Pan-American Exposition held last
week at the Murray Hill Hotel, in this
city, a representative of a prominent piano
manufacturing company made a proposi-
tion to the Board to place a specially con-
structed piano in the New York State
building during the Exposition. The pi-
ano is to be placed in the rooms of the
Buffalo Historical Society at the close of
the Exposition.
Value of Krell Estate.
The estate of Albert Krell, the Fourth
street piano dealer, which has been the ob-
ject of consideration in the Probate Court,
has been appraised at $31,284.55. Attor-
neys Creed & Muhlhauser, for the estate,
claim this is far below the liabilities, al-
though the stock is valued at only 40 per
cent, of the cost, says a Cincinnati paper.
A Great Combination.
Geo. G. Foster, head of that famous
triumvirate, Foster - Armstrong - Martin,
Rochester, N. Y., was, as has been re-
ported in The Review, one of the visitors
to New York last week. Mr. Foster has
been giving his personal supervision to the
re-equipment and re-arrangement of the
Marshall & Wendell plant at Albany, N.
Y. Already he has a large number of
workmen employed and the force will be
materially augmented in the near future.
Since taking hold of this enterprise, the
Charged With Libel.
Rochester piano syndicate has accom-
[Special to The Review.]
plished much work in the right direction.
Mankato, Minn., Dec. 17, 1900.
One of their best moves was to completely
Peter Hein, special agent for the Chase- re-organize the Marshall & Wendell plant.
Hackley Piano Company of Muskegon, They believe Albany to be one of the best
Mich., has been arrested by Sheriff Bowen manufacturing points in this country, and
to be held for the sheriff of Freeborn there will be no antiquated factory ideas
County. Hein is charged with criminal existing under the Foster-Armstrong-Mar-
libel by a competitor in Albert Lea, where tin regime.
Hein was formerly in business. Hein will
Geo. G. Foster is one of the youngest
return with the Freeborn County sheriff, piano manufacturers in this country and
give bonds, and return to Mankato until his advance during the past few years has
been almost phenomenal when we consider
his trial is called up.
that he is making preparations to control
Nelson & Crane, will be the title of the an output of nearly eight thousand pianos
business union, as announced in last week's for 1901. Nearly one thousand pianos
Review, of Chas. F. Crane and I. O. Nel- have been shipped during the last two
son. The instruments handled by the lat- months from the Rochester factories alone.
To have built this enormous business
ter, the Lindeman & Sons and Boardman
& Gray, will continue to be represented. within a brief period of time reflects much
Both gentlemen are widely respected and credit upon the managerial ability behind
the enterprise. The forces behind it
should continue to occupy an important have been of such a progressive nature
place in the trade of the Western Me- that there has been not the slightest
tropolis.
interruption to the onward march.
THE BEAUTY O F CASE DESIGN
AND NICETY OF FINISH
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with dealers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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