Patent Extension: Hearing Before Subcommittee No. 3 on H.R. 2128 : a Bill to Authorize the Extension of Patents Covering Inventions Whose Practice was Prevented Or Curtailed During Certain Emergency Periods by Service of the Patent Owner in the Armed Forces Or by the Production Control, H.R. 3134 and H.R. 4700, Bills to Provide for Extension of Terms of Patents where the Use, Exploitation, Or Promotion Thereof was Prevented, Impaired, Or Delayed by Causes Due to War, National Emergency, Or Other CausesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 97 pages Committee Serial No. 10. Considers legislation to extend individual patent terms for the amount of time they were suspended because of war or national emergencies and to extend the patent terms for military personnel who were unable to exploit their patents while in military service. |
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... believe is relevant and such other pertinent evidence as may be required by the Commissioner . If , from all the evidence presented before him , the Commissioner is satisfied that a patent should be extended in accordance with this Act ...
... believe is relevant and such other pertinent evidence as may be required by the Commissioner . If , from all the evidence presented before him , the Commissioner is satisfied that a patent should be extended in accordance with this Act ...
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... believe that they are entitled to an extension . The Commissioner of Patents , familiar with such matters , would have juris- diction to decide all petitions for extension . Appeals from his decisions would go to the United States ...
... believe that they are entitled to an extension . The Commissioner of Patents , familiar with such matters , would have juris- diction to decide all petitions for extension . Appeals from his decisions would go to the United States ...
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... believe that the rights of patent owners should be protected and fostered , not only to encourage inventors , but to en- courage inventors to patent their inventions rather than conceal them , thus assuring the general public of the use ...
... believe that the rights of patent owners should be protected and fostered , not only to encourage inventors , but to en- courage inventors to patent their inventions rather than conceal them , thus assuring the general public of the use ...
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... believe , Mr. Crumpacker , that came in last year , the granting of a license prevented or substantially curtailed the normal use , exploitation , promotion , or development of the patent . They are essentially the five points in ...
... believe , Mr. Crumpacker , that came in last year , the granting of a license prevented or substantially curtailed the normal use , exploitation , promotion , or development of the patent . They are essentially the five points in ...
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... Is it for the duration of World War II plus 6 months thereafter ? Mr. HOOPER . It says here " and to last for the duration of the war and 6 months thereafter . " Mr. BRICKFIELD . Now , I believe World War II 22 PATENT EXTENSION.
... Is it for the duration of World War II plus 6 months thereafter ? Mr. HOOPER . It says here " and to last for the duration of the war and 6 months thereafter . " Mr. BRICKFIELD . Now , I believe World War II 22 PATENT EXTENSION.
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American Patent Law application for extension bill H. R. BRICKFIELD Chairman claim Commissioner of Patents CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consideration cotton duck CRUMPACKER CURTIS D. C. DEAR disclosure duration EDWIN E EMANUEL CELLER enacted Equity Association exclusive rights exploitation extended patent extension of patents February 20 FEDERICO filing free license Government hearing HITZEMAN House Judiciary Committee House of Representatives House Office Building impaired infringement inventors the exclusive issued June 16 legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS limited manufacture ment national emergency normal opposed patent extension bills patent grant Patent Law Association Patent Office patent owners patent rights patent system patent was prevented patented invention period of extension prevented or substantially proposed provides reason relief restrictions right to exclude royalty-free license Scully Senate statement subcommittee subsection substantially curtailed terms of patents thereof tion United V-J Day vend veterans Washington WHITING WILLIS World War II
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Page 80 - To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries; 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; 10.
Page 48 - The economic philosophy behind the clause empowering Congress to grant patents and copyrights is the conviction that encouragement of individual effort by personal gain is the best way to advance public welfare through the talents of authors and inventors in "Science and useful Arts.
Page 76 - States citizenship who served in the military or naval forces of the United States at any time between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, and have been separated from such forces under honorable conditions.
Page 61 - Every patent shall contain a short title or description of the invention or discovery, correctly indicating its nature and design, and a grant to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use and vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States, and the Territories thereof, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof.
Page 81 - Subject to the provisions of this title, patents shall have the attributes of personal property. Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. The applicant, patentee, or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his application for patent, or patents, to the whole or any...
Page 61 - It is undeniably true, that the limited and temporary monopoly granted to inventors was never designed for their exclusive profit or advantage; the benefit to the public or community at large was another and doubtless the primary object in granting and securing that monopoly.
Page 61 - It is the reward stipulated for the advantages derived by the public for the exertions of the individual, and is intended as a stimulus to those exertions. The laws which are passed to give effect to this purpose ought, we think, to be construed in the spirit in which they have been made, and to execute the contract...
Page 90 - States, who, before the passage of this act, was bona fide in possession of any rights in patents or applications for patent conflicting with rights in patents granted or validated by reason of such extension, to exercise such rights by itself or himself personally, or by such agents, or licensees, as derived their rights from it, or him, before...
Page 44 - The patentee or his assigns may, by instrument in writing, assign, grant, and convey, either, (1) the whole patent, comprising the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention throughout the United States...
Page 60 - The franchise which the patent grants consists altogether in the right to exclude every one from making, using, or vending the thing patented without the permission of the patentee. This is all that he obtains by the patent.