Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick Perry Fish, 74, corporation and patent lawyer, onetime (1901-07) president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., onetime member of Harvard's Board of Overseers, member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation and executive committee, associate of Radcliffe College; in Brookline, Mass...
Garnet Carter has part interest in patent rights on the use of cottonseed hulls or other "comminuted flocculent vegetable material" as putting greens (TIME, July 14; Aug. n). His patents on hollow-log and other hazards are still pending. A great rival-Miniature Golf Courses of America Inc.-had sprung up to compete with his Tom Thumb Golf. Wisely they compromised on the market: to Miniature Golf, the indoor courses; to Tom Thumb the open spaces. Latest Department of Commerce figures for this fast-growing U. S. business put the total investment at $325,000,000 for 30,000 courses...
...Victor who had come to Manhattan's financial district from the West, maintained luxurious offices at 120 Broadway. In these offices he busied himself over the affairs of many enterprises, three of which especially stood out. One was Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., long involved in a raucous patent squabble with Claude Neon Lights, recently suspended from trading on the Curb (TIME, Oct. 13). The others were Metal & Mining Shares, recipient of much publicity last week, and Gold Center Mines, Inc., holding company for properties from British Columbia to Bolivia, still valid and going strong last week. Popular among potent...
Since early boyhood Inventor Gaisman, a bachelor, 60, has been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief...
February 7. Chairman John E. Aldred of Gillette: ". . . Rumors have been circulated, mainly in stockmarket circles, in regard to the Gillette Co. . . . Based upon the advice of our attorneys we are pleased to assure you that the patent situation ... is being developed in a usual and orderly manner and that we anticipate no delay or difficulty." By then, Gillette was $97½, AutoStrop...