Chapter 26

The entire world cartel system has been bound together with patents. The contracts among the American companies have been carefully planned and drafted abroad to avoid any appearance of violating the antitrust laws. They were couched in terms of licensing patents to give the impression that the parties were merely procuring rights under patents and not engaging in restraints of competition. The evidence indicates that the cartel participants in Europe had attempted to allocate the issue of patents in the United Sta…