Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everyone knows that a colonial manifestation, surpassing in size and importance all other manifestations held in any country, will take place this year in Paris." This statement, ludicrous as a patent medicine label, happens to be almost true. This week the French Empire stands in Paris. As an example of what has been amazingly done, the Angkor Vat (Temple of Angkor), probably the most intricate wonder of the Far East, a vast pyramid of architecture covering three and a half acres and embellished with miles of carved figures, has been reproduced in Paris, not as a model but full size...
There was a wistful air about the first International Patent Exposition, in Chicago last week. Inventors have notorious difficulty in getting money to exploit their devices. Banks will not make loans without established security. Financiers, in general, will not bother with strange new gadgets. It was with hope that volume and diversity would attract money that the inventors worked up their exposition. Some 3,000 men and women put their wares on display...
...Journal, watchdog for the U. S. medical profession which examines every patent medicine and household medicament, has been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time. The philosophy of the Journal, and of the American Medical Association, is to keep foolish people from doctoring themselves where a doctor is really needed. The family medicine chest can become, in its philosophy, a Pandora's box of evil...
...January 1930 the U. S. Government won an important suit. For it was decreed that five primary defendants (chief among them: Standard Oils of New Jersey and Indiana, and Texas Co.) and 45 secondary defendants were guilty of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Their guilt lay in the patent pool and cross-licensing system by which they kept unto themselves and licensees the valuable oil-cracking patents. But last week this important anti-trust suit, now in its seventh year, was lost by the Government. The Supreme Court held that the companies had created no monopoly, hindered interstate commerce...
Hydrogenation. While world-wide overproduction of oil exists, little demand is seen for the process of hydrogenation in which powdered coal is converted into oil. But last week it was evident that the great international hydrogenation patent pool is still active. The little town of Vaduz in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein (between Austria and Switzerland) was named as the home of a new company called International Hydrogenation Patents Co. which will develop the process outside of the U. S. and Germany. Another company to exchange patents will soon be formed in The Hague. Linked together by these deals...