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The Public Interest Concept In Law And In Economics, Robert W. Harbeson Dec 1938

The Public Interest Concept In Law And In Economics, Robert W. Harbeson

Michigan Law Review

It is an interesting and perhaps important coincidence that only a year previous to the famous decision in Nebbia v. New York there appeared two volumes which together constitute an equally notable landmark in the development of economic doctrine, Professor Edward Chamberlin's Theory of Monopolistic Competition and Mrs. Joan Robinson's Economics of Imperfect Competition. While there is no evidence that the latter works influenced the outcome of the Nebbia case, the writer is of the opinion that these studies not only afford a rationale of that decision but also make desirable a re-examination of the concept of "businesses affected …


Torts - Unfair Competition - Preventing Formation Of Contract, Anthony L. Dividio Nov 1938

Torts - Unfair Competition - Preventing Formation Of Contract, Anthony L. Dividio

Michigan Law Review

The Supreme Court of Minnesota was recently confronted with an interesting problem in the case of Johnson v. Gustafson. Real property was listed by the owner with the plaintiff, a real estate broker, who was to receive a $300 commission if she found a purchaser therefor. The plaintiff interested one Clarity in the property, but no offer to purchase was made. Desiring the property but being unwilling to pay the full price of $6,000, Clarity induced his friend Gustafson to purchase it for $5,700 with Clarity's money, directly from the owner, who had a right to sell it himself …


Trade Restraints - Federal Trade Commission - False Representation As Unfair Method Of Competition, Frank B. Stone Jun 1938

Trade Restraints - Federal Trade Commission - False Representation As Unfair Method Of Competition, Frank B. Stone

Michigan Law Review

An order of the Federal Trade Commission issued against the defendant publisher requiring it to cease and desist from representing to prospective purchasers, contrary to fact, (1) that the purchaser was a selected person in the community to whom special offers were being made, and (2) that an encyclopedia was being given to him free, a charge being made only for an annual supplement. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the first clause but dismissed the second. Held, that the second clause should be reinstated. Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Society, 302 U.S. …


Patents - Monopolies - Contributory Infringement Of Process Patent, Julian Caplan May 1938

Patents - Monopolies - Contributory Infringement Of Process Patent, Julian Caplan

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was the owner of a patent for the process of using bituminous emulsion to retard evaporation during the curing of concrete roads. Plaintiff supplied bituminous emulsion, an unpatented material, to road builders, permitting them to use the patented curing process, but had no express licenses or royalty contracts with these contractors. Defendant, a competing manufacturer of the emulsion, sold some of this material to a road builder, knowing that it was intended to be used in infringing the process patent. Plaintiff brought suit for contributory infringement against the supplier of the materials. Held, that the owner of a …