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...Manitowoc, Wis. Even the Manitowoc yard is staffed and supervised (not owned) by Electric Boat Co., and its product is Ebco-guaranteed. All three rival yards combined have fewer ways, less equipment than Ebco. Ebco got started in 1899 when it took over the original sub patents of Inventor John P. Holland, who built the U.S. Navy's first real underwater boat. Since then Ebco has built or designed more subs than any other outfit in the world. During World War I it launched 60-70 subs for the U.S. Navy, has since sold dozens more to Britain, Holland...
...Thomas Jefferson's birthday last week, hearings opened on the subject of one of Inventor Jefferson's favorite Constitutional guarantees: Article I, Section 8, which-"to promote the progress of science and useful arts" −calls for "securing for limited times to authors and inventors exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries...
...wartime witch hunts have actually obscured the real need for over-all revision of U.S. patent laws. Without such revision, the question plaguing the U.S. now will plague it even more at peace, when wartime-seizure powers no longer exist: How can a patent law encourage individual inventors without at the same time discouraging competition? Too often the patent laws have been used to restrict the use of new inventions rather than to assure an adequate reward to the inventor and their full enjoyment to the public...
...modern "inventor" is likely to be a big corporation. Big corporations have not only the best laboratories, but the most money and the most staying power in infringement suits. These suits can be so costly and long-drawn-out that the poorer contender can be bought or frozen out, however valid his claims...
...Coordinator is the game's inventor: Dr. William E. Code of Chicago. Codeball is played with six-inch rubber balls; has two forms: Codeball-on-the-Green is like golf, except that the ball is kicked into 14 specially constructed "bowls" covering about a mile and a quarter in one round. Codeball-on-the-Court is played, also with the feet, on a handball court...