Show PATENT SYSTEMS HERE AND ABROAD Our own patent system will bo be bet better better ter stood by a brief comparison with somo sarno of the principal c pal foreign systems systems In America the tho patent o makes malt OR a 11 careful before granting the tho patent to see ee that pat patents aio aro only ani for fr novel nov l In Inventions and that tho claims aio 1110 ic rc to a II monopoly to which the inventor is justly entitled Thus l huB our patents havo hav a facie facio validity Trance Ira on all tho other othel hand makos mak s no a l patent and requires no claims has only junt jUHt begun to 10 make mako pro I ml nil y examinations Gormany subjects ap applications for patents to a 11 very Viry examination The United States 10 ro no taxes of tho patentee after his patent Is as al the tho price ot of keeping his patent In for tho 17 years England J on tho inquires taxes paid annually after tho fourth year and and Franco require annual taxes The rhe United States does docs not require tho patentee to put his invention into use US but Franco und and Germany German absolute absolutely ly Iy require it and England will invalidate date a patent for fol an invention which Is chiefly abroad hut but only slightly or not n t at lit all in England In tho United States any an ot of the tho de defenses J fen to a patent can lie raised d in answer tin to a suit for Infringement gem nt and t ld that at lt any uny during d the of tho j patent In Germany Gor lan the th only answer r to a II suit for noni Is ad of the change chango of Infringement 1 ln t If ufo tho of at the patent Is to be uc attacked it must t be boO by b a 11 separate s pi milt nult for tor an annulment lin and such a n suit stilt can only bo bl brought d 1111 n tho first o otho at tho patent la ton t Therefore a b German patent Is I live old It Is conclusively ively Ivel presumed to bo bl valid In Iii Uio tho United States State If ono olio claim ot of a patent nt having lilt several e claims Is In Vald tint not nol affect the tho stand standing r rIng ing of tho claIms In England how If It onO one claim is pi oven Invalid the tho entire patent falls It is perfectly sate safe to say the tho can patent S tom Is a L part of ot our and lud that future futuro legislation will not bo In tho direction of curtailing the tho rights of but bul lather rathel of encouraging thom them by making the of at their rights a matter of f less expense and time Edwin T 1 In Indus Industries tries |