Word: patent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such also is silk. Last week, however, the U. S. awarded Patent No. 2,130,948 to the late W. H. Carothers, former chemist for E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...Began field work for the Monopoly Investigating Committee. Armed with subpoenas which they were instructed not to use unless necessary, SEC agents started looking into insurance investment practices (TIME, July 25), and Department of Justice agents delved into a study of patents. Two pronouncements this year by President Roosevelt, plus recommendations by Solicitor General Jackson and ex-Assistant Secretary of State Berle, indicate that the 100-year-old patent laws are due for an overhauling-if evidence confirms such suspicions as that big corporations suppress patents to block new products...
...shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost, and the number of competitors continued to increase...
...introduced in the U. S. last winter (TIME, Dec. 6). Basis of Lanital is casein, the thick substance in sour, skimmed milk from which cottage cheese is made. Last week the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Dairy Industry applied for a public-service patent on a somewhat similar process for turning casein into synthetic wool...
President of the Federation is Clarence B. Benedict, a retired patent attorney of Brookline, Mass., who will be president of the new Roycroft Community. The jobs which Infinite Science is to provide in East Aurora will be much the same as those of the old Roycrofters, but more numerous - up to 1,000 when the shops are running at Infinite capacity with three scientific shifts...