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Show Request Made For i Larger Patent Office Advocating a larger staff for the U. S.. Patent Office, R. J. Dearborn, Dear-born, chairman of the patents committee of the National Association Associ-ation of Manufacturers, charged recently that incomplete investigation investiga-tion of ideas submitted for patents is leading to costly lawsuits. Mr. Dearborn said pressure of work prevents Patent Office examiners exam-iners from making a thorough search of their files to learn if ideas submitted are new or sufficiently suffi-ciently different to justify Issuance Issu-ance of a patent, with the reuslt that the inventor's claims must be tested in court. "With a larger staff, the Patent office could make more rigid examinations ex-aminations to insure that patents granted are limited to what is ne wand novel," he added. |