General Electric - Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Settle Patents

General Electric. — Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing. — The board of control is reported to have completed the work of settling all the patent suits in which the two companies had engaged, numbering more than three hundred. W. D. Updegraff, private secretary to George Westinghouse, Jr., says that under the new arrangement the board of control, consisting of C. A. Coffin, President of the General Electric; F. D. Fish, its General Counsel; George Westinghouse, Jr.; P. D. Cravath, of New York, counsel for the Westinghouse Co., and F. B. Thomas, of New York, will enter suits and prosecute for both companies. The agreement as to common use of patents it is understood went into effect June 1. — V. 62, p. 689, 780.