Patent Extension: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 116 and H.R. 2128, an Act to Authorize the Extension of Patents Under Certain Conditions. May 4 and June 13, 1956 |
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81st Congress amendment American Patent Law application for extension benefit Chairman claim CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract Court CRUMPACKER CURTIS defense effect enacted exclusive right expiration exploitation extension of patents filed free license Government hearing HOLLABAUGH House Judiciary Committee independent inventors individual infringement interest issuance issued KAMBORIAN Korean Korean war LAURENCE CURTIS legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LYONS machines manufacturers ment MIESSNER nominal royalty normal opposed Patent Equity Association patent extension laws patent grant patent holders Patent Law Association Patent Office patent owners patent rights patent system patented invention period of 17 period of extension prevented or substantially production controls promotion provides Public Law 598 reason relief restrictions right to exclude royalty-free license Schonitzer Senator DIRKSEN Senator O'MAHONEY statement stop orders subcommittee substantially curtailed SWANNER terms of patents tion United V-J Day vend veterans War Production Board Washington World World War II
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Page 89 - ... for the term of seventeen years, subject to the payment of issue fees as provided for in this title, of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention throughout the United States, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof.
Page 89 - Every patent shall contain a short title or description of the invention or discovery, correctly indicating its nature and design, and a grant to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use and vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States, and the Territories thereof, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof.
Page 179 - The right to make, use, and sell an invented article is not derived from the patent law. This right existed before and without the passage of the law, and was always the right of an inventor. The act secured to the inventor the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the thing patented, and consequently to prevent others from exercising like privileges without the consent of the patentee.
Page 51 - No. 1297 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and no general restatement of that basis is contemplated here.
Page 181 - ... (5) If it appears to the court that the patentee has been inadequately remunerated by his patent, the court may by order extend the term of the patent...
Page 89 - It is undeniably true, that the limited and temporary monopoly granted to inventors was never designed for their exclusive profit or advantage; the benefit to the public or community at large was another and doubtless the primary object in granting and securing that monopoly.
Page 89 - It is the reward stipulated for the advantages derived by the public for the exertions of the individual, and is intended as a stimulus to those exertions. The laws which are passed to give effect to this purpose ought, we think, to be construed in the spirit in which they have been made, and to execute the contract...
Page 88 - Those cases declare that he receives nothing from the law that he did not have before, and that the only effect of the patent is to restrain others from manufacturing and using that which he has invented.
Page 63 - Act shall in any way serve as the basis for any claim by reason of manufacture, use, or sale by or for the United States during the period of extension, and the rights of the United States shall remain in all respects as if such patent had not 'been extended.
Page 161 - When an appeal is taken to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the appellant shall give notice thereof to the Commissioner, and shall file in the Patent Office his reasons of appeal, specifically set forth in writing, within such time after the date of the decision appealed from, not less than sixty days, as the Commissioner appoints.