Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the chief resistance to a railway train at high speed was the atmosphere. Rev. Calthrop took pencil & paper, invented an "Air-Resisting Train" that was a perfect conception of aerodynamic streamlining. That was in 1865, and the "Air-Resisting Train" never got any further than the U. S. Patent Office. Like most basic inventions, it earned its owner nothing...
Terminating a three-year fight over patent rights to the Drinker Respirator, the Federal District Court of Boston yesterday handed down its decision in favor of John H. Emerson, invalidating all three of the Drinker patents...
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 the Warren E. Collins Company, which in return paid Drinker a royalty of between $200 and $300 for each machine. Emerson found it possible to build machines using some-what the same principle and allegedly more efficient at a price of several hundred dollars less than the Collins Com- pany. Suit was brought against Emerson for infringement...
...University recognized that the public was not benefitting 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 out in the name of the University. It was on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson based his defense...
This time he got up to the ground floor, and safely inside. He landed a job as salesman for a new patent medicine called Vinol, sold it with such vim & vigor that at 25 he was able to organize Drug Merchants of America, a buying agency for retail druggists. The scheme burgeoned, flowered into United Drug, with Liggett as secretary, then president and general manager. When a bright employe coined the name Rexall for Liggett's patent medicines, his Boston factory was continually racked with growing pains. Though "Liggett's own deepest convictions were against" chain stores...