Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most significant testimony was that of young Conway Peyton Coe, Commissioner of Patents. Now 41, Patent Lawyer Coe was the youngest man ever to be commissioner when Franklin Roosevelt appointed him five years ago (he says modestly that there were few patent lawyers who were also Democrats). Well-groomed, "black-haired Conway Coe got his first job in the Patent Office when he left Randolph-Macon College in 1918. Studying law on the side, he naturally made patents a specialty, soon became one of the nation's crack patent lawyers, building a tidy practice in Washington...
...supplied the cordial for last week's love feast. Said he: "What we need is not to decrease but to enhance the monopoly called a patent. Genuine protection in that form would be the last surviving bulwark standing between the inventor and the onslaught of mighty and ruthless corporations...
...though holding the patent system largely responsible for the great U. S. fertility of inventions, Commissioner Coe had suggestions for improving the laws. Most important: 1) creation of a single court of patent appeals; 2) reduction from 44 to 20 years of the maximum period "between the filing of an application and the expiration of the resultant patent...
...water jackets. The heat of the compressed air is removed by circulating oil and returned to the pump where it furnishes accessory driving energy. The same principle, Mr. Jones declared last week, could be used to increase the efficiency of superchargers on airplane engines. He has applied for a patent...
...Hollywood, where-contrary to general belief-night clubs rarely flourish, famed Earl Carroll last week opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast, equipped with almost an acre of floor space, patent-leather ceiling, two concentric revolving stages...