From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Page from a legal agreement outlining terms for sub-licensees, patents, royalties, and potential infringements.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 133\3\ scan0155 | |
Date | 1st January 1940 guessed | |
-4- Sub-Licensees, and shall have affixed thereto ina permanent manner a Licence Plate in a form approved by Armstrongs. 8. THE parties hereto of the first four parts agree not to grant Licences to any other persons firm or companies in Great Britain and Ireland to manufacture engines of the types and for the uses stipulated in this Licence on more advantageous terms than those herein contained without at the same time placing the Licensees upon a similar footing. 9. IF any Letters Patent covering any part of the Kadenacy System incorporated in any engines manufactured by the Licensees under the terms of this Licence or any claim thereto shall be declared by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid thus enabling other persons to manufacture in Great Britain and Ireland a heavy oil direct injection compression ignition engine of the types and for the uses stipulated in this Licence with the same essential elements and possessing an equal degree of efficiency with engines manufactured by the Licensees embodying that part of the Kadenacy System covered by the said Letters Patent the Licensees' obligation to pay royalties hereunder for any period thereafter shall cease so far as the particular type of engine effected is concerned but if the decision of the Court of authority making such declaration or refusal shall be reversed on Appeal this Licence shall revive and the said royalties shall forthwith again become payable together with all royalties which would have been payable but for the adverse decision. 10. THE Licensees shall give notice to Armstrongs of any apparent infringement which comes to their notice, and if the infringement is of a material nature, the matter shall be referred to a leading Patent Counsel or Lawyer to be selected by Armstrongs, and if he shall advise that in his opinion an infrigement of a valid patent has been committed | ||