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Patent office Practice.

Patent office Practice.
NORTH DOUP. Neb. May s1.-To the
Editor OF The Bee: The truth is some
times a difficult thing to find. Readers
Of The Bee know Of the objections
raised 20 the Interior and Agricultural
departments by this writer. One OF those
objections was with respect 20 the man
agement of the patent office which is
In charge Of the interior department, and
with respect to the Rittman claims on a
gasoline process. The present methods
OF selecting the patent office examiners
leaves the patent practice entirely open
to the spies of big business, especially
the oil and gas trusts. A few weeks ago
raised the objection to the practice,
but had heard nothing OF the matter un-
til very recently, and that came IN an
accidental way.
Big business selects a few men and
places them in line for patent office ex-
aniiners, and they take the oath the
same as any applicant for those posi-
tons. When an application for letters
patent comes IN, n 1t is a matter that
big business does not want patented. the
letters patent IL denied on some sort of
previous claims. Since raising the OBJ
jections to the msnipulations OF the In
terror department in making gasoline and
taking out patents In the name OF the
government, l have received the fol-
lowing:
May 20. 1913 Mr.. w. J.-Dear Sir, Mr..
H. NJ, examiner in the United States
patent office for the last eight years,
has resigned his position and Joined the
p. p. Mr.. NJ. had charge Of patent
Glasses, including csrburetors, air and
gas mixers, gas producers. and treatment
Of mineral oils and is therefore in posi-
tion especially fitted FOR preparing and
prosecuting applications for patents Of
this character. This, with Mr.. MS famil-
iakity with patent office procedure and
patent law practice, makes him a valuable
addition 70 the firm and increases our
facilities for rendering expert services
on behalf OF our clients"
Mr.. M did not know that this writer
was working in those matters except
he obtained the same from the patent Of
flee records, which he has no right to
disclose under the patent laws II would
seem that the department saw fit to re-
move Mr.. M. for cause, and gave him q
chance TO resign and enter the patent
right practice. But how does that i'm
prove the patent office practice and how
does It remedy the matter Of the In
terror department in going into the pat
eht right business and at the same time
cit in judgment on the issue OF patent
fights7
What we are insisting on is that the
patent office and the interior depart
ment be cleared up in a proper way. Mr..
M. was the man who covered the sp-
plioation OF this writer for a gasoline
process, and to an average man a pat
eht granted In 1890 would hardly antici-
pate a experimenting process which was
not demanded until the last five years.
There are other matters connected with
the interior department that do not look
good. One OF those Is the matter OF the
Usage oil fields OF Oklahoma, where the
oil trust wants In. Mr.. President, you
should get busy. They seem to have let
some matters out that was not intended.
Patent attorneys should insist on clear
ing up the department
WALTER JOHNSON.