Economic Aspects of Government Patent Policies: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, Impact of Government Patent Policies on Economic Growth, Scientific and Technological Progress, Competition, Monopoly, and Opportunities for Small Business |
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Page 387 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries.
Page 99 - S. 1006 before the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 89th Cong., 1st & 2d Sess.
Page 47 - The Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have...
Page 119 - Most funds now spent on research are channeled to private contractors through the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Page 171 - If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.
Page 282 - ... the preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology...
Page 125 - Suppose that a man speaks near a movable disk, sufficiently flexible to lose none of the vibrations of the voice; that this disk alternately makes and breaks the connection with a battery; you may have at a distance another disk which will simultaneously execute the same vibrations.
Page 62 - It seems not at all unlikely that people in monopolistic positions will very often be people with sharply rising subjective costs; if this is so, they are likely to exploit their advantage much more by not bothering to get very near the position of maximum profit, than by straining themselves to get very close to it. The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.
Page 11 - The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic wellbeing but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small...
Page 325 - ... a principal purpose of the contract is for exploration into fields which directly concern the public health or public welfare; or (3) the contract is in a field of science or technology in which there has been little significant experience outside of work funded by the government, or where the government has been the principal developer of the field, and the...