Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-10

the United States at the recent meeting
of the American Bar Association, pro-
poses to vest this Jurisdiction In the
Commerce Court.
Saturday. February ~ representatives
of great technical and scientific societies
of the United States and the Patent Law
Association of Chicago had g. conference
with the board of managers and the COM
mittee of laws and rules of the Washing
ton association and were entertained at
luncheon at the Cosmos Club. This
luncheon permitted opportunity for
preliminary discussion of pending meas
ures and was followed by a banquet in
the evening. at which. in addition to the
representative guests, over one hundred
representative patent lawyers, members
of the courts, Congress and patent Office
were in attendance.
List of the Participants.
In consultation with the association at
this time were DR.. L. H. Baekeland,
president of the Institute Of Chemical
Engineers; DR.. William NJ. Grosvenor.
chairman Of the patent committee of the
Institute of Chemical Engineers; Ralph
D. Mershon, president Of the Inventors
Guild of New York; II. Ward Leonard,
chairman Of the legislative committee Of
the Inventors Guild: Charles S. Bradley.
first vice president Of the Inventors
Guild: Elmer A. Sperry, chairman OF the
New York section OF the American Elec-
trochemical Society: B. F. Wood. men,
Der OF the guild, and DIR. Parker C. Nc
Ilhiney, secretary Of the Society for
Chemical Industry. The Chicago Bar
Association was represented by two prom
inent patent lawyers, Messrs. c. C. Lin
thicum and Otto r. Barnett. and the
American Chemical Society was also to
have been personally represented, In ad-
dition to its representation through some
of the other gentlemen present, by Arthur
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society. At the dinner the American Bar
Association was represented by Adds B.
Browne of this city.
The Patent Law Association of Wash
ington has in the past conducted vigor-
Gus and successful campaigns against
patent attorneys who by advertisement
take advantage of the gullibility Of unin-
formed inventors to persuade them that
vast fortunes lie concealed within their
brains and that glittering prizes require
only the exercise of little thought in
developing ideas in any field of invention
without the slightest reference to the pre-
vious training or mechanical or scientific
capacity of the inventor
Ban on Deceptive Advertising.
The association has taken strong
grounds on this, and while not condemn
ing such advertising as the use of a pro-
fessional card. has specifically condemned
in principle and detail all unfair and de-
ceptive advertising, as evidenced by the
following quotation from the articles of
association:
advertising designed to create, directly
or indirectly, false or misleading i'm
preston in the mind of the reader; to dis
credit the work Of brother attorneys; to
offer advice before 1t is asked: to give any
service for Aothing for the purpose of Sc
curing client; to offer services on con-
tingent fee basis; to stimulate the unin-
formed to develop and patent inventions
for the purpose of supplying supposed
public demand therefor, and all kindred
advertising shall be regarded as unpro-
fessional. and any one guilty of such ad
vertising shall be disqualified for member
ship in this association. Any member duly
found guilty of advertising of such OBJ
jectionable character shall be dropped
from the rolls of the association