Show and what they protect A business man in this city who ia is up to his cars ears in tho the work necessary to gather capital to float an enterprise and at tho same timo to keep information of the nature of it away from busy rivals found time last week to say did you ev eve think that a patent does not patent in this is country well its a fact all that the patent office does is to give yon you a paper with some writing on it but if another man steals your idea and goes to manufacturing your invention the patent office will not lift a finger to protect you or to stand by its own decision the fact that yoa you j got a patent is a point in your favor but youve got to hire lawyers and fight the thief in the courts and if he can stand it to hire lilyers ion er than yon can that settles you and yo you u ma alt LS well wall binaso ru iest M a present of your invention there thera are lots of men in tho country who are getting rich on tho discoveries of other people all they had to do was to tate tale en em and fight tho the real discoverers into poverty the patent office to bo be respected and to be of iny any use ought to have the power to cause tho the stealer of a patent to besent be sent to prison new york san sun |