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Conditions Today in u. S. Patent Office
Declared Menace to American Industry

I he might have kept secret and SO might
longer period. although less advantage
ously, the principal attraction Of our
patent system has been the provision of
I an examining force in the patent Office,
! whose. duty it is to. make a search of
all the patents and publications of the
| world and of the state Of unpublished
| knowledge in the United States before
| granting the patent. to determine wheth-
| er the invention is new. SO that when
| the inventor receives a patent there shall
| be very strong probability that the
patent is valid The granting of patents
| under such circumstances raises a legal
presumption that the patent is valid and
| puts the burden on the infringer Of
proving invalidity. and thus greatly en-
chances the STABILITY of our patents
| Without it there would be produced but
a fraction~of the number Of patents now
produced, and we would surely lose our
| lead over other countries in inventing
and ultimately in manufacturing. Let
the American inventor once fully get
| the idea that it is not worth while to
| invent. and it would take generation
| to rebuild a class of inventors after the
mistake was realized.
No ordinarily cautious business man
would be likely to purchase a patent
without having such an examination
made, either by the patent Office or by
attorneys employed at his own expense.
| AS there are over 1850, 900 United States
patents and several million foreign pat
ents, to say nothing of the enormous
! amount of technical literature which
should be considered. the making of
such a search requires great deal of
! technical knowledge and skill.
The patent office has classified about
| half of the patents. so as to simplify the
searches, but it will be a generation be-
| fore the classification is made complete
| if it proceeds only at the rate which
the present limited force permits.
The expense of a search to deter
mine whether patent is valid. when
| made by attorneys outside of the pat
ent office, is unavoidably SO high that
individuals. who might otherwise
purchase patent are frequently de-
TERED from purchasing on account of
the expense, and in many instances
even manufacturing concerns would
refuse to buy a patent rather than in
cur the expense of a search thus
made. Where inventors would like
| to exploit their own. inventions, if
there were no examination system
| within the patent Office. they would
not usually think it worth while to
make the invention. because the ex-
pense of a search through attorneys,
added to the expense of developing
the invention, frequently would be
hibitive. On the other hand. a suf-
| ficiently large and properly qualified
examining force in the patent Office
would be able to make good exami-
nations. or reasonably certain exami-
| nations. at q cost which would enable
! the patent Office also to print and is
sue the patent for total uniform
] charge of $40 to s45 per patent. This
il AeoAEsA bx EIe2t fR2hdi1ste4 Of
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the labor each examiner would be en-
subclass of inventions for years
which would enable him to become sc
familiar with that class and with the
limits within which it would be safe
to conf1ne his examination that such
an examination would consume very
much less time than if made by per.
sons whose successive searches neces.
sarily related to inventions in many
different classes and arts, as must be
the case with attorneys.
x x y X
For many years the patent office
has been getting farther and farther
behind in it's work Of examining ap-
plications for patents. The number
of applications for patents has beer
steadily increasing for. many years
until now over 100000 applications
are received in the patent Office eact
year, including those for trade mark
registration, the number Of applica.
tions having increased 36 per cent In
the last three years. Every patent
granted in this or in other countries
adds to the field of search which mus,
be gone over in examining later ap-
plications for patents. The examining
force has not been increased in pro-
portion to the increase in work. The
result has been that the patent office
has gradually been losing more and
more the race with it's work, until to-
day an inventor frequently has to
wait a year before receiving the first
action from the patent Office on his
application, which he has to await be.
fore he can begin the series of argu-
ments and amendments usually neces-
sary to overcome or obviate the OBJ
jections Of the patent Office and obtain
a patent. If the inventor has made
arrangements for capital, this delay
may cause loss of interest of the pro-
posed investors in the enterprise OF
the diversion OF the proposed capital
to other enterprises, and may be just
as serious for him as the refusal of a
patent altogether.
1ue enIlFely luSuulCleuL uuuDer OF
examiners in the patent office at the
present time unavoidably results in
the granting Of many patents which
are partially or wholly invalid. Many
of these patents, when finally found
to be invalid, have resulted in heavy
losses of time and money on the part
of the inventor or those engaged in
exploiting the invention. and they
frequently become the cause OF long,
expensive and fruitless litigations,
which not only mean large losses to
those interested in the patent, but
heavy expense to the manufacturer
who has to resist the suit. These
suits. taking as they do the time of
tho courts, put the public to large ex-
pense. Thus a little money is saved
in the patent Office and . great deal
Of money is lost in private and public
expenditure in consequence.
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Evening star., 1921-02-20
BY N. O. MESSENGER.

HRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING'S tele-
- grams TO Senator Lodge, republican
leader in the Senate, and to Representa-
tive Mondell, majority leader in the
House. suggesting his desire that all the ap
preparation bills of this session be cleared be-
fore March 4. were not received in Congress as
ny any means intrusion of pre-executive au-
thority upon the functioning legislative body.
In point of fact it would not be out Of the
way to intimate that the kilograms were solc-
lted at this end of the line. The Legislative
situation in the House and Senate at the be-
ginning OF the week was well nigh desperate,
with the tremendous log jam of bills, and, con-
sioerlng the brief space of time intervening be-
fore the Sixty-sixth Congress expires by limita-
tion.
senator Lodge found himself between the
upper and neither millstones of pressure from
cha1rmen in charge of appropriation bills, and
senators Penrose Smoot and McCumber with
the emergency tariff bill What more natural,
1t was urged, than that the incoming President
be asked to get behind" the leaders with a
little boost.' In the cloakroom gossip some
democrats grnned at the republicans with the
suggestion, How about executive encroachment
on Congress-, even before your man takes his
seat?" but they were not serious.
Democrats served warning, however, that
they intend to be ever the watch tower for
congress. Fact is. they terribly sore over
the lambastings they have had to endure from
the republicans during the regime of President
Wilson, on the score of alleged executive domi-
nation OF Congress- and if President Harding
. ever deviates from a chalkline they will como
down hard on him.
x X X
From now on Congress will be about the
busiest going concern in the country working
overtime. Night sessions will be held by SEN
ate and House constantly, and for the last two
calendar days preceding March both houses
will be in continuous session, with short re-
cesses to allow tired senator's and representa-
tves to catch nap and bite to eat.
After all the bills are through and signed
by President Wilson there may be expected the
usual outcry against imperfect legislation over
jokers' in bills, and all that sort of thing.
Twas ever thus and probably ever will be- At
the beginning of every Congress the leaders,
whatever party is in power, make wondrous
promises of reform, having in mind the latest
experience of abuses and start out with -four
ish of trumpets to push appropriation bills
along.
But as the session progresses the bills bog
down here and there in committee in prolonged
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DISCUSS BILLS.
Committee Meets to Consider Legis-
lation for Service Men.

lation for Service Men.
Commander in chief Robert q.
Woodside of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and the members of the legisla-
tive committee of that order met
at the Harrington Hotel yesterday and
discussed the outlook for action by Con-
gress on bills now pending in the in
terest of men who served in the armed
forces of their country.
1--WE do not expect the present Con-
gress to accomplish much more in
the way of legislation, but we are
very much interested in the program
of tho Sixty-seventh Congress-" said
Commander Woodside. This organi-
zation has no ak to grind, and we are
working in harmony with other sorl
ganizations of service men for the
best interests of those who served i'm
the AxmL Navy A1A Marine Coma.
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duty which impels mso - make keen personal
sacrifices and come to Washington.

X X X X
This is the assigned by the friends
here of Charles E. Hughes in taking the secre-
tarvship of state-which thinks he
sought. The prospect of his acceptance OF the
cabinet post is still the talk of the town. Here
is a man, they say, who has had honors in large
need Governor of the Empire state, position
by some regarded second only to the presi-
dency; associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, post entirely to his Hk-
ing, and which he was induced to abandon for
the presidential candidacy only after repeated
urging he has filled the public eye for years.
Since his political experiment he has devoted
himself to law and all kinds of stories are told
as to the fabulous value of the practice he has
built up. At any rate. he has figured In more
than majority of the great cases that have
come up in the court since he began practice,
and is declared to have the pick and choice of
clients and fees.
The opinion prevails strongly in many quar-
ters here that Mr.. Hughes will eventually be
made Chief Justice of the United States. which
his friends declare will involve public service
more to his choice than in any other post ana
preferable, indeed, to the practice of law.
The extraordinary session of Congress, fore
cast for early April will be boon to the back
ers of enormous grist of bills inevitably
doomed in this Congress. Some of them are the
fruition of years of effort in Congress-, now on
the verge of enactment but facing defeat
through lack of time for the finishing touch.
They will die with the Congress and must
be commenced from the ground and go through
all the stages of committee legislation, but will
have the advantage of the preliminary shaping
up-to-date to start them more smoothly through
the mill-partially finished products, rather
than crude materials, pigron or lumber in
the rough, SO to speak.
There is speculation already among senator's
and representatives to how long the extra
session will continue. The best judgment is
that with the tariff and taxation questions both
to be handled. and with the great number of
admittedly important bills of domestic charac-
ter. and with the solution of international prob
lens pressing for attention. the session will
throughout the summer months, and pos
sibly we'll into the fall
1t is pointed out that the republicans must
make their record for the congressional cam
paign of 1922, which will furnish the first acid
test of popular approval of the party which
vested with power in all branches of the
government by the staggering majority of seven
millions of votes, including former democrats
we'll original and reclaimed republicans.
Copyright. 1921. by The Washington Star.)
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Democrats in Congress to Be Alert
to Detect Executive EncrOachmentS

and altogether irrelevant debate in both houses
in stubborn contests in conference committees
Meanwhile, as has been remarked. "it beats all
how time does fugit," and first thing they
know they are riding up to the same old set
of hurdles and water jumps.
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CAPT. RALsTON s. HOLMES.
Who has been In Command of the
presidential yacht. II II almost A..
sured that Capt. Holmes viii be the
chief Ofhcer on board the yacht VIXEN
the new administration takes Office.
Capt. Holmes h one Of the most non.
alag NavI 0Mcefn - Waahd1ktDA.
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The positions in the examining
very attractive to a fine class Of men.
The examining corps has a record for
the Stdctest honesty hat-ia -sana1.
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1t is noted that in Washington at this time
there is unusual number of senators and
representatives-elect getting their bearings for
the work which will face them a few weeks
hence. The fact that extra session of Con-
gress is due within probably thirty days after
the President takes Office is reason why the
new trooping in, and another is that
they desire to be here when the distribution of
patronage commences which will be. according
to hint from the President-elect, about the
middle of the afternoon of the day he takes his
seat.
When t-awas suggested that formal lunch
con follow the inauguration Mr.. Harding is
quoted saying: Il don't want any set affair;
intend to get back to the White House, take
off my coat and go. to work" He will have
plenty of it. 1t is no idle fancy to picture long
lines of statesmen and plain politicians troopng
to the executive offices. the breast pockets on
the righthand side of their coats bulging with
recommendations for appointment to office.
Who recalls the pathetic figure in play
which had popular vogue years ago of the
would-be Minister to Dahomey" moping the
Capitol steps and muttering, Dis office-seekng
am mighty poor business 1t was true pic
'ture. Many called but few chosen and
Washington has often been described as the
city of dread dsappontments." They come in
note their waning fortunes as they drift from
the frst-class hotels down to the next grade,
and finally disappear through the boarding
house doors, to fade away home.
Old-timers in Congress often ask each other
what is the lure that brings. men to Washing
ton after public Office, ofttimes leaving pros
porous business, which necessarily in most
must languish in their absence, to pay
court to the appointing power And the
to that is the counter question, what induces
scores of men in Congress. once they have
perienced a session. to cling SO desperately to
the chances of reelection time after time, until,
in so many pathetic cases of the past, they
find they have overstayed their welcome with
their constituents and ousted by some
bilious young who rallies to his own sup
port younger generation which has
looked the patriotic services rendered by the
elder statesman?
In the case of some of the higher Offices
the disposal of the President, it is said that it
is not the lure of Office. but sense of patriotic
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w WHILE the American revolu-
~ ton gave US political free
" " dom from England, we did
not Obtain freedom from
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Aside from the right granted to the
inventor, in exchange for disclosure
of his invention. to monopolize the child
# hta hu51 Goe Segenteen yeaz. Khich
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~ RESIDENT ELECT HARDING'S tele-
- grams TO Senator Lodge, republican
leader in the Senate, and to Representa-
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.
The patent Office is now so far behind
in its work that it cannot go much
farther without breaking down. The
situation is SO serious that the National
Research Council. at the request of the
Secretary of the interior and the COM
missioner Of patents. appointed COM
4conttnned- on Third Rage1
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

The Fourth Annual Convention Of
the Logan Window Trimmers Asso-
citation will be held in the wigwam
tonight. a splendid program Of en-
tertainment has been prepared. Miss
Connie Nibleg will do some feature
dancing, Mrs. Rudolf Van Neiden-
,hauser will yodle. Jack Wahlin will
sing some solos. and ther will be
an election OF officers. Mr.. Lavon
Sparrow is president and It is
through his efforts that the decora.
tons are so beautiful. Mr.. Sparrow
is an artist Of no mean ability.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08
LOCAL NEWS

Peck, Benson and PECK entertain
ed their employees, and wives at the
Wigwam Thursday evening by ten
dering them a fine banquet. This
was in celebration of their taking
over the business one year ago. a
very interesting program was pro
vided consisting of recitations, songs
and music. This is to be an annual
affair. About 25 were present.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Tanlac ls made OF roots. herbs and
barks and contains no minerals OF
opiates, Sold in Logan by the City
Drug Company. Adv-11-s
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08
Tell IL TO her with candy.

The Standard Radiator Repair
Service is charging It's facilities for
tire vulcanizing and radiator repair
ing. Mr.. ellsworth says ne has the
latest and best machinery for facili-
tating the prompt handling OF this
work on the way here and some is
now installed.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

You can't have good health with
n disordered stomach. Correct your
stomach disorders with Tanlac and
you will keep we'll and strong. Sold
by the Cit' Drug Co. Adv-1o-S
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

First Glass wheat. $3.50 per cwt
Delivered. Phone 17AJ. Island Pro
duce Co.. 53s 8. Main. Adv-1o-11
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Ritter Bros. Rexall Drug Store
have an unusually attractive window
display of Leggetts line of candies at
equally attractive prices. Adv.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Miss Ines Ritter is attending the
Fair in Salt Lake CITY, She will re-
turn some time next week
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Choice Jonathans. Greetings. Gn,
no and Black Twig apples at CSC
per bushel on trees at Stewart Or
chard. Riverheights. Adv-l0-9
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08
Whose fault is it sUhen your
husband is cross at
breakfast?

II you hit your thumb
with a hammer you
wouldn't blame your
thumb for hurting.
Then why blame your
husband whose nerves
may have been pounded
by coffee; ard whose rest
probably has been broken
by the irritation Of the
caffeine il contains2
II you stay awake half
the night you don't feel
any too cheerful.
The caffeine OF coffee
and the them of tea are
known drugs. If their use
is persisted in, sooner or
later the nervous system
may give way.
Then YOU may have
insomnia, or disturbed
sleep. Your nerves and
tissues will be robbed Of
that stability essential for
normal and happy living.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Broby's Service station are selling
Piston Rings at Job.
bers price. Ady
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Today is the sweetest day in the
year.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Broby's Service Station are selling
Mcouay-Norris Piston Rings at job
bers price. Adv
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

The Misses Esther and Annie Pc
terson are attending the Fair this
week.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Tell it TO her with candy.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

To-day is the Riddles Candy Day
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

You can avoid this
possibility IL you'll stop
drinking tea and coffee and
drink instead, rich, pleas
ing Postum.
Postum is the deli
cious cereal beverage with
a coffee like flavor. II
affords the advantages Of
q hot drink, without the
i'll effects Of tea or coffee.
Order Postum from
your grocer today. Try
il with the familyfor a few
days, and see what a diff
ference there'll be--how
II will permit Nature to
bring sound sleep and
strong, sturdy, quiet
nerves. Sold by grocers.
Postum comes In two
forms: Instant Postum Tin tins)
made instantly In the cup By
the addition Of boiling water.
Postum Cereal lin packages q
larger bulk, for thoae who pre-
fer to make the drink while thu
meal Is being prepared) made
by boiling for 20 minutes.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

WANTED Second hand letter
copying press.--Call Phone AS.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

One Tube furnished FREE with
each Tire sold Broby's Service
Station. Adv
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Mr. A. G. Lundstrom OF the Lund-
strom Furniture Co, left for Salt
Lake yesterday to be gone until
Monday He will take in the Fair
while there.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Broby's Service station are selling
McQuay Norris Piston Rings at job
bers price Adv
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Today is the Riddles Candy Day.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Best Jonathan apples for sale,
John Anderson. River Heights. Bring
YOUR boxes. Adv-10- S
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Mr.. r. Rasmussen is in Salt Lake
attending Conference aud the Fair.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

People who have been helped BY
Tanlae are always anxious and will
ing to tell others about 1t. Sold in
Logan by the City Drug co. 1913.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-10-08

Shamhart and Christensen are
putting in new show cases in place
OF the old ones in the lobh in front
of their store. Their show windc -
are always an attraction and the
new cases will add considerably to
the beauty OF the entrance. The de-
eorations and window trimming is
the work Of Mr.. L. Sparrow. who
is president of the Logan window
Trimmers Association.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-04
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