2128, granting unrestricted patent life of 17 years. It is of interest to note American inventors are given benefits of H. R. 2128 in England. AUSTIN G. COOLEY. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 15, 1955. Hon. FRANCIS E. WALTER, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: For a fair consideration of patent extension H. R. 2128 your attendance at tomorrow's Judiciary Committe is important. The bill is of very limited value unless provision 2 of section 1A protecting all inventors is reinstated. A. G. COOLEY, Patent Equity Association, Inc. PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA., June 15, 1955. Hon. F. E. WALTER, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: Would appreciate very much your voting tomorrow at the Judiciary Committee meeting to restore section 1A to bill H. R. 2128 and to vote the bill reported out to the floor immediately so that Congress may have a chance to approve a bill it passed at last session. Hon. EDWIN E. WILLIS, PHILIP L. CORSON, G. & W. H. CORSON, INC. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 9, 1955. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: Re H. R. 2128 (Fisher) and H. R. 3134 (Reed). The New York Patent Law Association is opposed to the extension of patents under the circumstances stated in these bills. The objectives of the bills are praiseworthy, but passage would result in serious problems. Many property owners suffered economically from war, notably motor courts, filling stations, etc. The bills would give advantages to patent owners which other property owners do not have. A law has already been passed permitting extensions of patents owned by veterans under certain circumstances. These bills would take effect some 10 years after war and after many patents have expired. Your careful consideration of the bills and of above comments will be gratefully appreciated. FLOYD H. CREWS, First Vice President, New York Patent Law Association. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 17, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: I am vitally interested in the passage of bill H. R. 2128. Other countries have passed this type legislation and I see no reason why it should not be passed here. Will you please do all you can for the passage of this bill? Thank you. WILLIAM FUNKE. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, BUFFALO, N. Y., June 16, 1955. House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Urge you attend committee meeting tomorrow, Thursday, 10 a. m., to vote to restore stop-order provision to H. R. 2128 to report the bill out to the floor immediately so that Congress may vote on this legislation. Urge your support. WILLIAM FUNKE. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 18, 1955. Congressman EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Please consider voting to restore section 1A sub 2 to H. R. 2128 and to report bill to the floor. This is vitally important to several of my clients. JAMES M. HEILMAN. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, NEW YORK, N. Y., July 1, 1955. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: Our opposition to various bills which would extend the life of patents is based on the fact that these bills would give business advantage and reward to persons who are not or cannot be identified and would prejudice others who are for the most part also unidentifiable. We strongly urge that they be rejected as dangerous and unsound legislation. NEW YORK PATENT LAW ASSOCIATION, W. HOUSTON KENYON, Jr., First Vice President. UNION CITY, N. J., June 15, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Urgently request your attending House Judiciary Committee meeting 10 a. m. Thursday and would greatly appreciate your vote to report out to the House bill H. R. 2128 in original form including section 1 (a) (2). MAX LEVERTON, President, Shoup Voting Machine Corp. WATERTOWN, N. Y., June 15, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: Re patent extension bill H. R. 2128: Please refer my letter April 22, 1955. Urgently request you attend committee meeting Thursday, June 16, 10 a. m. Please vote to restore section 1 (a) (2) stop-order provision to H. R. 2128. Also please vote to report bill out to floor immediately so Congress may make decision on this legislation. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, A. D. MERRILL. MORRISTOWN, N. J., April 19, 1955. Member of Congress, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Word has just reached me that the House subcommittee on patents which has been considering patent extension bill H. R. 2128 has forwarded this bill to the House Judiciary Committee without recommendation for action. Inasmuch as last year's duplicate bill H. R. 3534 passed the House, was recommended for passage by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and only narrowly missed passage in the Senate, because it could not be brought to a vote at the close of the session, I most urgently request that you do everything within your power to secure passage of this bill. It is of the utmost importance so that patents which could not be worked because of wartime prohibitions may have the full 17-year working life guaranteed by the Government. Relative to debates on this bill see Congressional Record, House, of July 27, 1954, and Congressional Record, Senate, of August 18, 1954. Please reply collect. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MIESSNER. MORRISTOWN, N. J., June 15, 1955. Am informed that there will be an important meeting tomorrow June 16 at 10 a. m. of the House Judiciary Committee for consideration of the patent extension bill H. R. 2128. Earnestly request that you attend this meeting and vote to restore section 1A (2) to the bill and to report the bill out to the floor immediately so that the Congress as a whole may deecide this issue. It is a very important issue to all of our inventors whose 17-year patent terms were shortened by material and manpower allocations during the recent wars. As one example I have had over 30 patents expire during World War II' when they had just begun to get into manufacture. I gave a royalty-free license There to the Government under more than 100 patents during the last 2 wars. are a great many other inventors and patent owners in this same position. Your vote for this bill will greatly encourage invention and restore some confidence in the patent system which has steadily been deteriorating for the past 25 years. Please reply collect. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MIESSNER. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: MORRISTOWN, N. J., June 21, 1955. May I again urge your attendance at the House Judiciary Committee meeting on June 23 and your vote to restore section A2 to H. R. 2128 and to report it out to the House for a vote by that entire body. You will thereby earn the gratitude of all of our Nation's inventors whose contributions have made our country great and whose guaranteed 17-year patent terms were shortened by the last two national emergencies. Remember that all other patent-recognizing countries already have such legislation. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MIESSNER. BOSTON, MASS., June 9, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, House Office Building, Washington, D. C. Re bill H. R. 3534 patent extension. The Smaller Business Association of New England looks forward to the speedy passage of this bill. This is a vital matter to our small-business members. THE SMALLER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND, JOSEPH D. NOONAN, Executive Secretary. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: NEW YORK, N. Y., June 29, 1955. The National Association of Manufacturers opposes enactment of H. R. 2128 or any other general legislation providing for extension of the 17-year term of patents. We believe such legislation would adversely affect our American patent system and would, therefore, be contrary to the public interest. Uncertainty as to the expiration date of patents would cause difficulties for business enterprises in planning future activities. Actually, the patent right is only the right to exclude others, and this right was not, in fact, suspended by war legislation. HENRY G. RITER III, President, National Association of Manufacturers. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 22, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: I strongly urge your support for H. R. 2128 patent-extension bill. INTERNATIONAL SHOE MACHINE CORP., New York District Manager. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., June 16, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.: Urgently request your support H. R. 2128 patent-extension bill. Please attend Thursday morning meeting. Vote to restore section 1 (a) (2) and report bill out now. Vitally important to our work in New York. INTERNATIONAL SHOE MACHINE CORP. OAKLAND, CALIF., June 15, 1955. CHAIRMAN. HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.: We respectfully ask your efforts to have atendance all members of your committee Thursday 10 a. m. and a vote to restore section 1 (a) (2) and to report bill H. R. 2128 out to the floor for prompt decision. We have definitely suffered by Government stop-order of our patent manufacturing during World War II. M. WELLS, Hon. EMANUAL CELLER, President, Spears Wells Machinery Co. COMMUNITY COUNCILS, CITY OF NEW YORK, INC., Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives Washington, D. C. DEAR CONGRESSMAN CELLER: Your efforts on behalf of bill H. R. 2128 are timely and just. I am sure we will be victorious, with your aid. FRANK PEER BEAL, President. CARPENTER MONOLITHIC ICE RINK FLOOR, Re H. R. 2128. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR CONGRESSMAN: We understand that a new bill has been introduced, H. R. 2128, which would extend patents to compensate for the war and other national emergency years, a bill somewhat similar to previous bills about which we wrote your committee members in 1948, and again in 1951. Our original patent on the Carpenter monolithic floating floor and piping system, the all-purpose, permanent floor for memorial and public auditoriums, field houses, arenas, and outdoor rinks expired in July of 1950, without having the full benefit of its use owing to the war and following restrictive years. We feel we should be allowed to carry on for a compensating period, and ask your favorable vote. Enclosed is a copy of letter in behalf of this request written by Glenn Moore Shaw in 1948, at which time a similar bill relating to patent extensions was to be considered by the Judiciary Committee. The context of Mr. Shaw's letter still maintains, so please consider it an appendage to this letter of request. Thank you sincerely. Very truly yours, E. R. CARPENTER CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO, Hon. JOSEPH R. BRYSON, Representative from South Carolina, House Office Building, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR CONGRESSMAN BRYSON: This letter is in behalf of Mrs. M. R. Carpenter, who I understand has writen you asking that you give serious and considerate attention to bill H. R. 4511 which refers to extension of patents and which I believe has come before the subcommittee on Patents of which you are a member. It is also my understanding that a substitute bill, H. R. 4304, which would extend patents belonging to veterans of world war two only, has been tentatively recommended by the said subcommittee on the basis that a general extension to all patentees would not be feasible. There is probably some justification in their conclusions but there are certain moral aspects that apply in Mrs. Carpenter's case and unquestionably in many others, that should merit further and specific consideration. Mr. M. R. Carpenter was an engineer and owner of patents of processes (the all-purpose floor) that were completely curtailed during the war years. These patents have but a short life before expiration. With a patriotism and zeal belying his 72 years, he offered his engineering knowledge and himself to the aircraft division of Fisher Bodies and was immediately placed in the development and expedition of engine nacelles for bombers. After 2 years of this work and after an especially hard day at the plant, he slept away of a thrombosis. There was no military funeral and no medals, but M. R. Carpenter was a war casualty as surely as though he had stopped an enemy bullet on a battlefield. I am reciting this little human event to you (such things are not discussed in subcommittees) that you may consider what seems an injustice and a penalty imposed upon Mr. Carpenter's family who is carrying on his business, simply because he was not wearing a military uniform when he died. When bill H. R. 4304 is being discussed again, please lend your efforts in rectifying what would be an injustice in I am sure, many comparable cases. Very truly yours, Hon. EDWIN E. WILLIS, GLENN MOORE SHAW. DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, Chairman, Subcommittee No. 3, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR CONGRESSMAN WILLIS: The Disabled American Veterans desires to go on record endorsing H. R. 2128 and S. 116, to authorize the extension of patents covering inventions, the practice of which was prevented, or curtailed, by reason of service in the Armed Forces. Our interpretation of the above listed bills is that the period of extension is twice the length of the period of service between the dates, December 7, 1941, and September 2, 1945. The period of extension for a veteran whose service was terminated by reason of service-incurred disabilities is not as great as one who was disabled in the service and continued on active duty until September 2, 1945. The veteran who was disabled in the service should be entitled to the same extension period as those who served until September 2, 1945. This might be accomplished by rewording H. R. 2128 and S. 116 by inserting the following language immediately following the semicolon on line 4, page 2, of each of the said bills: "Provided any such individual whose active duty in the above service was terminated prior to September 2, 1945, because of service-incurred disability, which, for purposes of this Act, be considered to have continued such active duty until September 2, 1945." Very sincerely, OMER W. CLARK, Director of Legislation. TACOMA, WASH., June 2, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Building, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: It has been brought to my attention that 4 years was knocked out of our patent laws during the war. I am very much interested in an extension bill known as H. R. 2128. If this bill does not pass, myself, as well as many thousands of others, stand to loose royalties that should have been protected by Congress. I think the only fair thing to do is to remedy the situation by passing H. R. 2128. Yours sincerely, C. C. COLLINS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C., April 19, 1955. Hon. EMANUEL CELLER, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Enclosed herewith is a telegram which I have just received from James L. Breese, president of the Breese Burners, Inc., Santa Fe, |