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Show I GERMAN PATENT REQUEST PES I I Garvan Declines to Return Confiscated Rights of Former Foes NEW tork. July it The Chemical Chemi-cal Foundation. Inc., has declined 1 comply with the request ... Property Custodian Thomai VN that it return it the government the patents, trademarks and cop righ assigned to the company, a lettei ten by Francis li Gar van pr the foundation discloses. I Another letter from Mr. Gan in to President Hardin- avers thai Ll formation given the pn lei aboul the case "has been furnished by German Ger-man agents, to an ex-German spy and interpreted by lawyers whose sole knowledge pf the war and Us lessons is derived from association with German Ger-man clients. The president Id urjri I by Mr Garvan to seek "other counsel," coun-sel," the letter declaring that h h is been "grossly misled by the attorney general both as to the law and the facts of the case " COMPLETE REFUSAL. In his letter to Allen Property Custodian Cus-todian Miller, Mr. Garvan Btatet "Tou are advised that this company com-pany Is owner. In its own right, of all the aforesaid patents trademarks and copyrights and of the lifcomo derived therefrom. The compai, denies t.ini the United states government or ; on as alien property custodian, or anyone any-one other than this company has an -right, title or Interest in said patents; pat-ents; trademarks and copyrights Di company, therefore declines to comply com-ply with your demand In an particular partic-ular w hatsoever " After reciting In the Utter to President Presi-dent Harding what he states were the eieps which led to th sale of the patents pat-ents and reiterating that the comp my has not realized an profit to date Mr. Garvan urges President Harding " in American fairness1 to direct the government auditors now going o ei the foundation's books "to seek and then to certify to the American people whether I or anyone else conected with the sale have ever recelvd any hlng but abuse." MATURE OF TRUST. "Mr. President," the letter continues, contin-ues, "you have bad to Impugn the honor hon-or of the gentlemen who boost a part In the great work of building up or preserving the posslldlltv of progrev-ln progrev-ln organic chemistry for America. You have been misinformed as to the nature na-ture of the trust wc bore. That trust was not the German kartell the owner of practically all the important pat-. pat-. nts . That trust wns for tho American people, their industrial independence and th safety and bealth of their children and their children's chil-dren's children " oo |