The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15
THE PATENTED BELOVED clNlce

THE PATENTED BELOVED clNlCH.
| One of the most universal and effec-
tixe of Beloved Cinches is one pro-
Itected by the United States Patent
Office This consists of thinking out
or dreaming, of some method of doing
something useful to mankind, and then
hovering over the idea, like a miser
over his gold pieces, and refusing to
let anybody use your idea unless he
comes across with tribute This pro-
cess Is known as encouraging genius
and rewarding talent.
This Beloved Cinch has always work
ed very well, but under decision just
rendered by a majority of the United
States Supreme Court it will work bet
ter Several of the justices have come
to the aid of the patent owner and
have cinched up the patent law several
more notches.
They have given the patent rights
owner a longer leverage on the users
of useful appliances.
They have decided that the owner
of patent has an unrestricted monop-
oily upon all articles used in its opera
tion, that he can dictate the use of the
article, and what is more he can set
the price of his tribute levied on users.
This decision is deeper in its mean
ing than the mere rewarding of in
ventive genius This decision goes
deep into the trust question for it is
the quintessence of the monopoly ques-
| ton.
] The people upon whom these Be-
loved Patented Cinches are girded will
get some comfort in the fact that the
chief Justice and two of his colleagues
spoke word in behalf of the saddled
public. They said that such an un-
restrained decision would breed evil.
This is like serving notice ON a CALLED
backed horse that the saddle is going
to cause him pain, but that neverthe-
less here goes the cinch several more
notches.
! The decision was made in the case
OF a manufacturer of a rotary duplicat-
ing machine which copies typewriter
letters Users of this particular ma
chine probably well know that if you
Ebdy one of these machines the manu-
faeturer insists that You use his brand
I OF wax sheet, and all of his supplies
The benefit of the duplicating machin-
cry is a sort of bait to cause de-
mand for these particular supplies.
And vice versa if you own another
make of machine, operators know how
hard it is to buy this particular brand
of ink or the other supplies unless you
have paid tribute on the machine. II
is double back-action sort of scheme.
The rulings of this manufacturer have
been so arbitrary that the manufae-
turers rules have been opposed in
court and have been carried to the
highest court in the land. TIE court
has decided in favor of the man who
owns the Beloved Cinch, and has de-
cided against the public users The
court tells the manufacturer to so as
far as he likes, not only in debating I
arbitrary uses of his machine, but to
dictate the price.
The defenders of the Beloved Cinch
were Justices Lurton McKenna,
Holmes and Vandeyenter. Those who
spoke word for the users of patented I
articles were Chief Justice White. La
mar ard Hughes.
The Encouragement and the solic-
itorgeneral commented that the de
eision is epoch-making.
The decision is also reactionary Al
the present time a new thought is
growing up in regard to the remunera-
ton OF inventors. 1t is proposed that
the actual inventor or the assignee OF
the invention should have a fixed re-
muneration for the labor aud the good
luck of the inventive idea and that
after certain reward the use of the
idea should revert to public owner
ship.
It is the history of invention that the
actual inventor rarely profits by mis-