High Court of Australia
o12980/45
HB Dew, Gov. Print, Mai
CUE Wr GOR Ned
IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTKALIA
IN THE MATTER OF LETTERS PATENT NO, 4505/31 GRANTED TO > PAUL —BEATTY -REBVES +
ORIGINAL
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
Judgment delivered at__SYPNBY on FRIDAY, 16th DECEMBER, 1949
\ to Paul Beattsh
This is an application by way of originating summons under Section 84(6) of the Patents Act that the term
of the patent be extended on the ground of war loss. In my
judgment to-day on a similar application in respect of Letters Patent No. 17139/34 granted to Electric and Musical Industries Limited I have set out briefly the law so far as applicable in these cases. I proceed now to deal with the facts. This is a convention patent relating to variable speed transmission. The invention enables a machine driven by an electric motor to be driven at a lesser speed by the same motor. It is claimed for it that the adjustment it enables to be made in the speed can be made with a minimum of trouble and with a maximum of result. The patent was granted on the 13th October 1931 and so expired on
the 13th October 1947. Although the patent is in the name of Paul Beattis Reeves it has been treated by him as the property
of The Reeves Pulley Company and has been at all material times exploited by the company. However any extension will have to be
es who has never assigned it to the company.
There are four related foreign patents, i.e. in Canada, Germany, Brance and the United States. The United States patent was as- signed to the Reeves Pulley Company. It expired in 1948 and has not been renewed, The Canadian Patent was also assigned to the company but it has never been exploited. The German patent was sold in August 1938 for 1,496 dollars which was paid to the company. The French patent expired in January 1947 but was extended. In October 1937 a license was granted to manu- facture in France but the only royalties received were 21.83 dollars in 1938. No royalties have been received since the
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