Show V nid lowd states far k ahead in patents i patents abound in dearig years of industrial activity and aad 1020 1926 ails las set a record for the united states with 4 40 of these indices of american cro cre alave ingenuity an aa larline far back va aa s 1780 1700 passed the A first rit national act providing for the granting of pi patents paten tents tn but the camp modern legislation dote from 1830 when oil 11 former mer statutes were repealed we issue far more patents patent than all other countries combined out total Is double that of great britain or france and nearly four times that of germany having passed the mark the figure for 1925 is nearly double that registered for 1000 1900 just as each generation decides that there Is i nothing ng now new under the sun the unheralded pathfinders path finders come along not merely with novel ideas but with alulu singular lar derivatives of the old notions claiming tile the credit and paying the fee even though the bulk of tile discoveries co veries may never progress from the sketch or the model to the stage of wholesale manufacture |