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After two and a half years of postponement the Drinker-Emerson case comes before a Boston court today. It will be decided upon purely legal grounds in reference to patent laws but for the student and professional man it has ethical and scientific ramifications with which the courts will be unconcerned. To quote from a scientific journal the question involved: "Shall universities allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under university auspices on tax-free premises?" is a pertinent problem for institutions of higher learning and research...
...Corporation may determine." It seems that such a resolution would be unnecessary but such, unfortunately, is the nature of man that his individual morality rarely coincides with social morality. But already the spirit of this act of the Corporation seems to be evaded. Following its promulgation Professor Drinker, of the School of Public Health, transferred his patent through a Mr. Wilson to the Collins Company. It is interesting to note the wording of the assignment in trust, dated May 13, 1932: "Until the death of the survivor of Warren E. Collins and Warren E. Collins, Jr., the trustees shall accumulate...
...University recognized that the public was not benefiting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken in the name of the University. It is on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson will base his defense...
...case of Warren E. Collins, Inc., versus J. H. Emerson Co., will begin this morning in the Federal District Court of Boston, as the culmination of a two-year battle between Phillip Drinker, assistant professor of Industrial Hygiene at the School of Public Health, and John H. Emerson, a Cambridge inventor. It is expected that the case will take three days to decide...
Several years ago Drinker developed a respirator in the University laboratories at the request of the New York Consolidated Gas Company and sold the patent rights to it to the Collins Company, which in return paid Drinker a royalty of between two and three hundred dollars on each machine. Emerson found it was possible to build machines using somewhat the same principle and allegedly more efficient at a price of several hundred dollars less than the Collins Company. Suit was then brought against Emerson for patent infringements but action has been postponed sevveral times...