Transactions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...study with care the essential steps in the various ways of making the new product and draw a single claim broad enough to cover them all, the product of this "distinct process," however broadly expressed, is patentable even in Germany. Quoting directly from the paper in question, "Of all patents issued to Germans living In Germany 75.5 per cent were assigned before issue. The highest ratio of these assignments is reached in carbon dyes, about 98 per cent. Further the paper states "Of 1754 (total) patents issued for German inventions, 1247, or a little over 71 per cent, related to carbon dyes and compounds and bleaching and dyeing processes, only 5 subdivisions out of 40 considered in the table. The number of those assigned out of 1247 was 1111, or practically 90 per cent, and of these 844, or 68 per cent, were assigned to only 4 companies, who in connection with one other company work en a 'Community of interest' plan, by an interchange of stock and division of profits under an agreement to last 50 years from 1904--one big trust." It looks as though the German trusts "got 'em," whatever they are worth, and as though in Germany practically the only inventing worth mentioning (in these lines particularly) was done by employes of the big corporations. What better proof could be desired that the much lauded German system of no product patent is a sweet sop to the big corporation? On second thought you will hardly prefer the German method. "Compulsory working" has become a farce in every country that tried it except England, where it hasn't been going long enough to become systematized. Elsewhere it is generally a matter of a little money to formally comply with the statute by advertising and...