โ Scribed by Silvester, W. A.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Read before a joint meeting of the Manchester Sections o f the Society o f Chemical Industry, the Institution o f the Rubber Industry, and the Institute o f Chemistry, on February 7 , 1936) 'l'licrc is :I snying of Neii:ititlcr, i1 Greek wlio tlictl in 6'33 u.c.. I t is
: *' Choose cqiiality i~iitl flee grcctl." \'c turn to tlicBookof Coiiitiioti l'riiyer atid fiiitl written : '' Cursed is lie tliiit reiiiovcth his ticiglihour's liitid-iiiark. :I work of fictioii by a nioderii A\niericnn writer, Nr. Upton Siiiclnir, tvc find : '' ' But lie lias it piitciitcd,' said Xontague. . Piitciitcd hell ! ' rcplicd the other, ' Wliiit's n piitctit to lawyers of coiiccriis of thiit sizc 1 ' . . . For reasons itiiplicit in what follows, i t is convenient to 1)cgiii with piiteiitiiig in the Uiiitcd States riithcr than. in Britain. In 1787 Congress of tltc U.S.A. g!ivc, for limited t,imcs, t.o . . . itiveiitors the csclusivc riglit to thcir . . . discovcrics. Tlic prcsent U.S. law (1570)
siiys that " any pcrsoii who has iiiveiitcd or discovered iiny IICW iind usefiil iirt, iiiiichiiic, 1iiaiiiifiiCtilrt, or composition of iniittcr, or niiy new rind useful iiiiprovcnicnts t,licrcof " may, in specified circumst,nnccs, " obtaiu i i p t c i i t tlicrcfor." Thus, iitiy illventor (tiiitivc or not) iiitiy ask the US. Govcriinictit to grunt to liiiii the csclusivc right, for t , b term of scvctitccii years from tlic tlirtc of tlic griitit., to Iiiiikc, USC, iriid .end t h siiitl itiveiitioti " throughout tlic United States iiiid the Territories tliereof." Kow, observe, t,lic *' siiid invention " is spoken of, iiiirl n period of tiiiic is spccifietl. The piitelit, kiiowii in Ihgliititl still iis Letters l'iitc1it, tlic tloci~~tlctit to bc iisctl iis i~ proof of tlic gritiit of pri~ilcgc, is in three piirts, iiiiriicly : (i) tlic griuit with of1ici;il seiil ; (ii) u. spccificiitioii (with driiwiiigs if iicccssiiry) ; (iii) ii set of cliiiitis ciicli of wliicli Ixirticiiliirizcs wliiit it is tliiit tlic piiI>liC of the United St;itcs iind the !l'errit,orics t,licreof iiiny not, (lo for tlic tcriii specified.
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