Show COLOSSAL FRAUD FRAUDIN IN PATENT DEALS Assi Assistant tant Examiner in Government Govern Govern- me ment t Office o Implicated By Disclosures s 7 STOLEN INVENTIONS INVENTIONS- AR ARE I. I I D rs Work on i 7 at at o a a S Sh Scheme e t t t to B Be Worth Millions Million's f. f V Washington Feb F b 28 28 28 Visions ol ot o he the millions ns' ns swing around lh the themen men attested arrested h r yesterday f tent frauds fraud The Thu arn amount to tn to b i tl zed ed necessarily de do penis upon th 1 involved and am the monetary worn o of t these e e rights m must st bo ho determined by later operation a ml third f th the the- ho tinted c. c d states S patent patent O office C J J m A. A Heany e n r Inventor tor ol or York jk P Penn n and Henry Ever Ever- 1 hn i ot n iT the three men mer mena a resi I in fid the thO c conspiracy were wore re rel release re- re l lease Jato today ball bal each The Tho ho plan pf Qt oJe 1101 of ot the three men inca was ivan Recently certain 1 Improvement rm te tB h have he e been Deen made In arc n liy y for or res l s secret tion on t transcribing rm some of the rec records rec- rec or 9 fl of or others the thc pan plan pan was lf to Ui place on the records all al and ond nd changes In art arc or P I 15 JW n r nt patented d b by Heany prior to c anyone rise lSe I It 1 Is estimated that a af aR 4 i ft t result jul o of patents now granted or om orp p In the patent office oco a a. n new ne style tlc o of ot arc 1 light hl will wi sopa be m mar mar- r- r which will wil revolutionize the tl C all of those e rl rights ht an and pat patents have ha C been credited d c to Jl any the conspirators would d have lve had the market eb and their profits would hae L soared soared- soared oven oare even ven Commissioner says s 5 would have been H ml conservative e statement of or lh the would have derived am amount the they Barton one Alone e Concerned The Investigations which have beer lO conducted ht t Moore Moor c con l oni el ed l the ot officials that tha nc no nol l In the te office was conate con- con hl ate are tr g Pt T ju Oi h th t tt n. n f Is i 1 nb Q W will Involve Involve- r the the men now nov tn tinder arrest and und that thc they may In bo be dr df reeled solely to Barton Darton As a r result of or the discovery cry cr of or th thE the fraudulent patent a D 5 system stem will be restored restored which was discontinued discon discon- prior to the administration ol oC Commissioner Moore The system has for Cor Its object the greater grealer protection of ot inventors and will m provide for the tho fin fil filing il i-il- f- f in ing of blue prints in Ia addition to the tho drawings and thereby make snake It a dif dif- difficult dif matter to steal an any portion porton of ot an Inventors Inventor's device levice Before entering the thc government employ employ em em- ploy plo Barton was wa engaged as a an expert export ex cx port pert 1 by the tho Edison Electric company and In that capacity he ho devoted his anc entire time to arc lights These applications that were offered offer I ed cd together with wih the drawings and other data were handled by him ex ex- elusively It t Is stated in the charges against Barton Darton that man many of the drawIngs draw- draw tugs Ings submitted to him contained great merit meriL merit In fact it ft I is alleged by taking an Idea he here c and antl an Improvement there he was enabled to place leny in In n possession sion of or an nn arc light so r far tar superior to all other applicants that no other light could possibly be compared compared com corn I pared with wih it iL By adopting these method it is la charged Heany had At lt t his disposal ome of or tho the greatest Inventions In the wn way vay of or highly perfected arc lights Had the theY hey been placed place on tho the market according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the tho p patent tent experts they have been such as ns to eventually replace arc lights In every evon part of tho the globe As a 0 result of oC proceedings proceedinG's to tobo tobo bo 0 brought blought b by the patent office through the tho department of Justice Itis it its i Is s probable that tho ho Inventor who submitted submitted sub sub- drawings of or the improved ed arc lights will wiil wi not suffer by the alleged application of tho those e ideas to a light for which Heany 1 was granted a patent In n this event the tho proceedings proceeding against to be an an- those hose now no under arrest are ore |