Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...answered according to ethical considerations and standards. Whose rights should be given first consideration, those of humanity as a whole, or those of a selfish individual seeking private and greedy gain? Should a man be restricted from improving on life-saving inventions merely because an individual has secured a patent to assure his own gains? Scientists pool their knowledge. No discovery is made by an individual unaided by the vast background supplied by preceding men engaged in research. The one who culminates the achievement is more fortunate but not necessarily more worthy of credit or gain. Harvard University went further...
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...
...remain under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders who had registered to vote and snapped with British disdain: "A most obvious and patent fraud...
...road willy-nilly, every freight car in the U. S. must be equipped. All U. S. railroad brakes are Westinghouse but Westinghouse does not make all brakes. New York Air Brake, founded in Watertown, N. Y. about 50 years ago to turn out a vacuum brake, got involved in patent squabbles with George Westinghouse, and the upshot was an agreement whereby New York made Westinghouse brakes under license. Today the business is split approximately 25% to New York, 75% to Westinghouse. Westinghouse's new type AB was put on the market three years ago. Only 30,000 cars...