Show patent attorney Fr frauds allIS john wedderburn doing business at washington as wedderburn co patent attorneys lias has been disbars disbarred dis barred ed from further farther practice before the united states patent office wedderburn has worked up quite a large business in the west by a system of clever ad verti ment he has given medals and had bad prize drawings all of which have attracted wide attention and when once wedderburn got a client on the hook he held up such high hopes to the inventor that was abl to bleed his pocket book completely the opinion dis d is barring wedderburn is a scorcher and recommends that even the mails be closed to his lottery Bd scheme herne papers have been forwarded to the postoffice Post office department from the patent office expressing ex his hia methods the opinion deals quite extensively with Wedder burns methods A client it is said has been induced to believe that he has really discovered something remarkable or invented something of g geat e qt value in recognition of which he has not only been entered on a roll of honor but has also without his request but because of his exceptional ex optional ept ional genius been entered for the Wedder bum prize all ot of which is in ia its plain essence a fraud but it has put the correspondent correspond corres em in a state of mind necessary nee essary for bleeding his pocket referring to the silver medals awarded clients the decision des ision says it will be noted that the name of the genius doea doci not appear on the medal but that of john wedderburn co does nor is the invention mentioned so BO that the medal could be worn by a manor man or a dog with equal propriety and would serve the same purpose as a cheap advertisement advertis ment for the respondents spon dents |