Show I WARI I PATENT OFFICE WAR STIRS WASHINGTON WJ I II I kW I 4 53 44 w C 4 t 1 e t te a C th i 4 L J Jt 5 t I k fr l Aboe the Iho In Washington IA Lower left abner Robertson Lower LO right Alexander Alexandcr J V Patent Issued to Guide Balloons With Har- Har HarI Harnessed Harnessed I Eagles Airplane tion I Scorned I I lly By Ml l C ai July 30 30 TV V 1 The he U 11 S Patent Office Office- Office I comic serio-comic vaudeville aude act at aas 11 S gOOd foi a a smile or a n sob I headline government gO attraction attraction I tion since hince 1836 ls 1836 Is In the lime limo limelight limelight light again I Charges of ot favoritism die dis- dieci dis ci Inefficiency and domination by a ring of ot out out- outI out out-i bide patent attorneys have been made on the of the I senate by Its committee on pat The fhe commissioner of ot pat pat- pat patents patI enl cots Thom Thomis E Robertson Is I described In the charges es as asan an arbitrary czar crar not not Inter I ested In Justice jUBUCO but only In dealing out hi his favors to ape ape- special special cial attorneys These charges are hotly d de- de de denied nied b by Robertson and hIs supporters But his enemies claim they don t tell the the half ot of it ill ItI Since Its establishment the he patent office has hag Issued sud 1500 1500 I patents It has turned down and tied up still stillmore stillmore I more All these present some strange contrasts On Dec 11 1895 1835 for tor In- In Instance instance In Instance stance A It M 11 Herring applied for a a I patent on the tho first air air- airplane air airplane plane It was as rejected on the tho grounds that No airplane could coul l fly Two years later Herring built builta sped a plane according to the sped sped- contained In his pat- pat mt application and made the tho first successful all plane flight on record But his patent nas as asne ne neer er granted Yet Yot one ono was Issued to C n It nD ItE RE E D Vult a Frenchman tor for a device designed to propel and guide balloons with alth Ith harnessed eagles George B It Selden applied for tor torI fora tora I a patent on the tho first automo- automo mile automo-mile mile on Ma May 8 1879 He ro- ro rolet re let red to it as a road engine I Ia a a motor driven en wagon walon The I patent seas vias held up for lor 16 ears not being granted until I Nov t C 1895 I King 1 of ot Utah out out- out hues thc else c as follows A number of reputable patent attorneys havo have corn com com to 10 me mo of ot the capri capri- capricious capri capri- capricious capricious cious and despotic conduct of the commissioner ot of patents 1 here Is an organization of patent a within thin which are found the favor favored d ones and outside of ot which are the ones against whom hom the com corn commissioner missioner ml died He lIe assumes to say who Is Isa isa Isa a good Il cr and who ho Is not I am also Informed that there Is la much Inefficiency In Inthe inthe Inthe the patent of office lice and also do- do delay dolay de delay lay King Is backed up In his charges by Senator of Minnesota who Introduced the patent office Investigation resolution |