Chapter 53

“For this purpose it is _absolutely necessary_, and that is why we ask you for it, _that you supply us_, before we arrive at our final decision, with a _precise statement of those patents of ours which you use in your manufacturing processes, designating at the same time those instruments in whose manufacture these patents are used, also indicating the turnover you have had in these instruments during the last two business years, and the volume of orders which you have at present on hand for such instruments_. “We …