Author: Joseph R. Edson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781331132387

Excerpt from Extension of Letters Patent: Should Congress Provide, by General Legislation, for the Extension of Letters Patent, in Proper Cases, Beyond the Term of Original Grant? This subject will be considered under the following heads: 1. Constitutional provision for patent laws. 2. Laws enacted between 1790 and 1836 and between 1836 and 1902. 3. Extension of letters patent: Origin and history of extension. 4. Extensions - To whom granted. 5. Law of 1836, providing for extension of patents, and law of 1861, repealing same. 6. How passage of repealing act was secured - Some general law similar to the law of 1836 should be reenacted - Inventors entitled to reward. 7. On the grounds of public policy, and to carry out in good faith the contract between the Government and the inventor, as well as to make some acknowledgment of the debt of the Government to its inventors, extension should be provided for when inventions have not been placed on the market, or inventors have not been suitably rewarded, and in other proper cases. 8. Industrial progress of government measured by the protection and encouragement government gives to its inventors - America's commercial supremacy and high wages founded on patents. 9. No limit to human invention - "It requires no prophet's vision to see the coming glory and. the coming triumph of the inventive skill of man." 10. To inventors we must look for maintenance of high wages over cheap foreign labor. 11. Reasonable requests of inventors and manufacturers should be heeded. 12. Another consideration presents itself: Extensions should be granted when inventions have not been placed on the market or inventors have not been suitably rewarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.