Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coca-Cola, which has successfully weathered every change in public taste for 48 years, Repeal had no effect. Whereas the average soft drink begins to lose favor after five years, Coca-Cola has shown no sign of fading vogue since a patent medicine man named Pemberton first concocted it in 1886. Every management that takes control makes more money than its predecessors. The Candlers of Atlanta, who got the company in 1892, rose from humble druggists to become one of Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia...
...Army has spent some $100,000 perfecting the Kruesi Compass, has made it a compact unit which weighs less than 45 lb., fits in a small box. Patent rights are owned by the U. S. Government, manufacturing rights by Fairchild Aviation Corp., which paid Inventor Kruesi a modest advance royalty. Last week the Fairchild factory at Woodside, L. I. was working day & night to fill an Army order for 500 Kruesi Compasses. From this $150,000 order, Inventor Kruesi will receive not one penny. Reason: He is a Government employe, may not profit from Government expenditures...
...Kirkland Hose Englishman unselfishly have made no application for patent, hold no copyright on their name. On the country, members of the Kirkland Englishman welcome their Winthrop House offspring, glowing with the consciousness that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. W. H. Ledgard...
Then the country's highest tribunal changed its mind, consented to review. The ruling handed down last week left Mr. Fox without a leg to stand on. In substance the Court declared that the Fox patents had not been infringed, that they were not valid. Reason: lack of "novelty and invention." The practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel...
...later at the suggestion of William Jennings Bryan when he was already well known as an adviser to the lovelorn. Orator Bryan suggested that Taylor call himself "Doctor of Matrimony." Scrupulously ethical in his radio addresses, Taylor is careful never to give any medical advice- except to endorse the patent medicines which sponsor his programs...