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Show The Patent System All the greatest inventions of our country are protected protect-ed by patents issued by the United States Government For 150 years the Government has stood back of inventor and their inventions, in order that the full benefits of their contributions to progress might go to the people ot the United States. The patent system began with the beginning be-ginning of the Government. The steam engine, nail machine, ma-chine, cast iron plow and cotton gin were all patented in. George Washington's time. The reaper and mowing machine, ma-chine, harvester, sewing machine, rotary printing press, vulcanized rubber and the safety pin came during the next fifty years. No one has ever offered serious objections to giving monopolistic control to the inventors who have contributed) so much to the national progress during the century and a,-half. a,-half. Now, most strangely, patents fall under suspicion. Electricity, communication, transportation, photography, flying, radio and the most scientific improvements the World has ever known are to be searched for traces of monopolies. Senator McAdoo has a bill pending in Congress for the establishment of what he calls a Court of Patens Appeals. This is supposed to be a bill to protect small inventors who; now have to defend their claims for patents through the; usual courts in the usual way. The United States Patent Office and 8,000 lawyers comprising the patent bar oppose' the bill. |
