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SIGNAL CORPS GEf.'IERAL DEVELOPMENT LABORATOHY 

FORT MONMOUTH, NEW JERSEY 

PATENT MEMORANDUM NO. 4 , 

MEMORANDUM FOR: 

S U B J E C T : Relations with Commercial Concerns • . . 

(Date) 

1. It is the policy of the Chief Signal Officer that officers, 

enlisted men, and civilian.employees have no relations with commercial 

organizations th.at might jeopardize their unqualified loyalty to the 

Signal Service or that might influence their official action in development, procurement and inspection duty. The following examples are cited 

as representative of conditio~s that must be avoided: 

!!.· Technical, mechanical, administrative, sales or any other 

service, outside official working hours or while on leave, to an 

organization or individual engaged in a line of work that reasonable 

foresight might visualize as eventually leading to business relations 

with the Laboratory. 

~ b. Financial interest to the extent of 1/100 of 1% or more 

of the capital account, in any corporation or partnership that reasonable 

foresight might visualize as an eventual Goverrunent contractor for the 

type of matet.ial with which the Laboratory is ~oncerned • 

.£...' Patent licenses under issued patents or applications 

therefor to ll}8.Ilufacturers who may with reasonable foresight be expected 

to become Government contractors for the type of material with which the 

Laboratory 1• concerned and involving such patents • 

. 2. While the Government may not properly deny to an employee who 

is a patent owner the right to dispose of his legal rights under such 

a patent to whom he chooses, such action might BO limit the usefulness 

of the employee as to require his transfer to duty of another kind, to 

another station, or in extreme cases to termination of his service entirely 

if his contemplated action were not ma.de known and approved in advance. . . fl . 

3. In order to assist personnel of the Laboratory to decide borderline cases and to carry out the spirit of the foregoing policy, answers 

are desired to the following questions in the blank s~ace following them:-

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· · ~· ~e you pployed on a part time basis or as a consultant 

by any organization that has now, or is likely to have in the future, 

contracts from the Signal Corps involving relations with the Laboratory? 

If so, with whom and under what conditions? 

b. Are you a stockholder or partner to the extent or more than 

l/100 of 1% in any organization that may become a Government contractor 

for the type of equipment with which the Laboratory is concerned? 

.£• Have you as inventor or co-inventor ma.de applications for, 

or been granted, any patents by the U. S. Patent Office? If so, list 

such patents or applications giving title of invention, date or application, serial number, issue or reissue number of patent/a, date 

of issue and names of any co-inventors, together with a record of their 

present status; i.~., whether or not they have been sold or assigned to 

CC?ImJlercial concerns and the names of the firms and the basis of assignment or sale, also nature 0£ any license to the U. S. Government in each 

case. 

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4. In case the answers ma.de above require modification ~ any time 

during your connection with this Laboratory, report to that e~t in 

-writing will be _made to the Director. 

By order of the Director: 

I have read the foregoing and the answers appearing under the questions 

are.true and correct for this date. 

~~~~·~/ / (D~te) (Signature) 

Execute in duplicate. One copy to CSigO, one copy retained at Sig.C.Labs. 

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