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84/ declined to do. [[left margin in red]] Patent suits [[/left margin]] I gave Whitaker our Dicyandiamid samples and report about [[red underline]] Rippers [[/red underline]] Dicyan patents as tried in our lab. He says his company may be willing to buy these patents from [[red underline]] Ripper [[/red underline]] if they are of any value. Asked him [[strikethrough]] whether [[/strikethrough]] what we could do to help him in suit also for preparing to get into manufacture. - [[red underline]] Thinks it preferable to wait until after my return from Germany [[/red underline]] and advises me to meet Vredenburgh. there with whom American Cyanamid is in very friendly relations since they purchased American rights for [[red underline]] Pollak [[/red underline]] patents from him. W. says Am. [[red underline]] Cyanamid has nothing [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] in common [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] to do with British Cyanamid [[/red underline]] Co. except they purchased American rights for Beetle patents. [[red underline]] Romler [[/red underline]] also [[strikethrough]] purchased B [[/strikethrough]] got license for Beetle patents but no license for Pollak patents in Germany which are held there by German I Cy. while American I.Cy (Unite) only has [[red underline]] Ellis [[/red underline]] patents and came too late to get hold of [[red underline]] Pollak patents [[/red underline]] which were acquired by Am. [[red underline]] Cyanamid [[/red underline]] hence the present patents suit situation. [[left margin in red]] Vredenburgh [[/left margin]] W. tells me Van [[red underline]] Vredenburgh [[/red underline]] hates patent suits but is very disposed to trade and drive as hard a bargain as he can [[end page]] [[start page]] 85 [[left margin in red]] Romler [[/left margin]] obtain. W. thinks Romler possessing only license for Beetle has nothing to stand [[strikethrough]] on as [[/strikethrough]] to offer to Bakelite Gesellschaft [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] unless the latter have a license on the Pollak patents. [[left margin in red]] Redman [[/left margin]] [[strikethrough]] At 1 P.M [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] May 17. [[/underline]] Met [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] 9:30 AM at office by appointment to urge him again not to impair his [[red underline]] unsatisfactory health [[/red underline]] condition by loading himself with all the routine matter of laboratory direction. Told him Rossi & George advise him to become our good will ambassador, in visiting at his own discretion our large customers who never see any of our principal men except the employes of our sales department. - I advised him to [[red underline]] leave whole laboratory management to Weith [[/red underline]] and not interfere with him, thus creating duplication and possibilities of cross orders etc. Says he will think it over [[left margin in red]] Van Cauwelaert [[/left margin]] At 1 P.M. luncheon with [[red underline]] Grenade [[/red underline]] of Belgian Embassy who wanted to get me acquainted with Frans van Cauwelaert, [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] member of Parliament Belgium, and Minister of State. - Said to be the next [[red underline]] prime minister [[/red underline]] of Belgium. He has been [[red underline]] Burgomaster of Antwerp [[/red underline]] for several years. King Albert has sent him to the U.S to get acquainted with conditions here. A man of about 50 years, [[red underline]] very pleasant [[/red underline]] highly cultured who makes an [[red underline]] excellent impression [[/red underline]]. He speaks good English and excellent French beside Dutch and German. Has received his education at [[red underline]] Louvain [[/red underline]] and in Switzerland and stands at
Transcription Notes:
Ripper refers to Kurt Ripper with the Dicyandiamide patents
Vredenburgh is correct
Beetle is correct (his patents were indeed licensed by Am Cyanamid)
Grenade is correct. Refers to Raoul E.L. Grenade, counselor to the Belgian embassy
Frans van Cauwelaert is correct
