Getting it patented

Abstract

United States Patent Office and the unique system of which it is the very heart have had few press agents in their long history. Probably no other government agency has contributed so much to the American way of living and has had so little recognition in return as has the Patent Office. As a result, the education of most chemists does not include any information on either the use of patents as chemical literature or on the patent system and how to make use of it. The average American's information concerning the Patent Office is about as follows:Many great inventors have taken out patents. The term of a patent is 17 years. We have copyrights to prevent pirating of publications. If you can think up a good gadget and get a patent on it you can make a million dollars easily. If you want a mechanical patent you must submit a working model of your invention. Lots of articles have the mysterious expression "Pat. Pending" on them.Right here let us refute that statement about models. An inventor is not required to submit a model and has not been so required since 1880. The office has no room to store thousands of models. However, if an inventor thinks he has made a perpetual motion machine he must submit a model and prove that it will do all he claims for it. For some reason the Patent Office is suspicious of perpetual motion machines! As for the words "Pat. Pending" there is no law which prevents anyone, whether he has a patent application 1 "Outline of the history of the United States Patent Office,'' J.

Recent Chemical Patents or What Else Is New?

“…Aside from his monthly feature, William S. Hill wrote three regular articles for the 1944 Journal. Coincident with the inauguration of "Recent Chemical Patents", the Journal published "Getting It Patented" (20), which provided another overview of patent history, essentially a summary of the July 1936 issue of the Journal of the Patent Office Society commemorating the centennial of the Patent Act of 1836 (21). Hill's May 1944 contribution, "The Chemist and the Patent" (22), described a typical patent document.…”