Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...
...That anti-trust and patent laws do not sanction "regulation of prices and the suppression of competition among the purchasers of the patented article...
...authorized sales of the fuel by refiners to jobbers, the patent monopoly over it is exhausted, and after the sale neither appellant nor the refiners may longer rely on the patents to exercise any control over the price at which fuel may be re-sold...
Four years ago the U. S. Court of Claims decided five of his six patent claims were valid, later decided the Government owed him approximately half a million dollars. Forthwith he wrote Congress that he had now planned an 85,000-ton, shockproof warship which would be immune to serious damage by shell, torpedo, or air bomb...
...patent No. 2,187,664 was granted to John L. Rogers of Hazleton, Pa., for a mechanical rosary which counts prayers by means of a push button...