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Quiet, fast-moving Leo Crowley, U.S. Alien Property Custodian, wrote a letter to his Commander in Chief last week to tell him that by year's end he will have seized over 50,000 patents. That is virtually every U.S. patent held by citizens of enemy and enemy-occupied nations...
...Crowley pointed out, his patent grabs mean that "some of the finest research achievements of modern science" will be available to any interested U.S. manufacturer. His plums include: Krupp patents on heavy machinery, diesel engines, locomotives and metal alloys; I. G. Farbenindustrie's work on oil and coal products, aluminum and magnesium fabricating, etc.; Focke-Wulf and Dornier aircraft improvements. But for the long pull, the significant part of Leo Crowley's letter to the President was the outline he made of his patent policy. It was a patent reformer's dream...
...American rights under exclusive licenses will be respected "pending further study," but "restrictive provisions governing production, use, price and market area in any license" will be thrown out. As an inducement to exclusive licensees not to retain their monopoly (for which they usually have to pay stiff royalties) Crowley suggested that they might prefer nonexclusive licenses immediately, royalty-free...
...order to encourage wide use of all these inventions, Crowley will: 1) distribute full information on them to "small I business as well as large"; 2) undertake to defend new licensees against infringement suits by former owners...
Next speaker was John Crowley, Cambridge Deputy Chief Warden, who described the intricacies of the local report center, and explained the various ways in which this center is connected with the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety organization, in Boston, an the region headquarters...