New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-19
ESee1 Of ITeceipi'of manufacturing bus'ress over

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expenditure being PROD: Of about 81 per c. iO925 q
The applicant cleins that the above sum amounts
| 10 % more than reasonable manulaoturer profit
30 tie proof SHOWS that The annual profit received by
other manufacturers over and above Tie pat nj tees
IS 30 per cent and that Part Of tits profit should
therefore, be charged to the Invention lie also
clirs that lie should be allowed, iOs expenses in
IoieirG,rg and paier ling his Invention. Il sum OF
$4,000, ard for costs Of igafon tie enm of S3,
80; Gud that these allowances show that be has not
Leen Adequately remnuericd lOrshis time, expense
ind ing NIFTY by profits ari,ing from the invention
aud Justly chsrgeabie 10 THE patent Moreover, that
any profits be la' made should lie divided between
lis patents Of lei5 and 1877 and ,e yeIa su tequent
patents. IHt lhe patenleos statement shows that
;.c cum of 1895, Lot included in the foregoing
schedule Of receipts, bas been received Tor lie nse
fees and danaees recovered agtinst intIiugers. Here
j. also 10 be added the profits accluug for the year
1861, which nay on cunt 10 a large eum.
II is tut jnst aud proper that tie piten'ee'l cut
standing 'aius for patent es should be added to his
schedule Of receipts. There j. now doe him, from ~
manufacturers who have without license used bis
invention since is reissue, patent &c for such uso
which there appears 10 reason Why he may not col
let, AID which, In The aggregate. must amount % a
large sum, ADD would swell BIS remuneration to such
an amount that am forced 10 believe dat 10 any
event reasonable remuneration wll be received ~
The pa'entee: VIII, ref1re l am Of opinion, having due
regard TO the great interest tie public have IN the
ton ought not to be extended
IT. GisTOsing Of I'll. case | cannot omit 20 notice
letter which has been pat In evidence, prrpori0g 70
be fig;ed by Lee ~ Fiber who appear ae attorneys
ogrosiug Tie excursions aud which letter is proven
10 he Ia the handwriting Of Geo. ~ Lee. fuis let
ter was addressed TO certain manufacturers OF reap
iog machines, nrging them 10 advance money TO Lee
Fisher, for tie puspose Of defeating Mccormick =
opplicaiion, and giving sroDg assurances that, #
t,il ieut money were advanced 10 them by mGug-
fsciurers Mccormick would be defeated in Che Pat
ent-Otcc. PROCEEDINGS # tits nature canno. be
TOO fuongy Tepr bated, because they serve 70 levy
llacs.nail upon the public by hgugry lawyers, they
rif dangerous cont nations az conspifgces against
pstentees. ard tend e. destroy pubEc confidence in
lhe honest AID faithful administrator OF the Patent
OHeS. Tie fact that ruch proceedings have been
re-oried 10 against Mccormick has had no pre- iad
ell influence mon nor changed the det rmiDniion IN
hia case. ! hore that such means will never again
he rcsor'ed TO for influencing TIE aciioDs Of tlii
oifce, and that in future manufacturers will not
suffer themselves to be yicinized by such means
Cyrus H. Mccormick is an inventor whO.e fame,
while he is yet living, has read throughout the
world. His genius has done honor TO bis own com.
try and has been the aduira ION Of foreign nations,
aud &c will live in TIE grateful recollection of man
Mind long 70 the reaping machine Is employed In
gathering tie harvest.
But, mon the ground that tie patentee Lac al
reidy received aud may, by the dgent assertion OF
liz rights in court against iuiringcrs, recover an adj
equaie remuneration for the inventions claimed 10
is said ten paients am constrained 10 refufe to
extend tie sai patene, and accordingly order that
they be not extended. ID. i. HOLLOWAY.
a. s. dcnff Ecs WGsH1g'or en-, d. Oct y, 1851.