Protection of Inventions

IN the past six years, thousands of patent applications and patents have passed under my observation. It has been my experience during this time that applications for the new inventions, in nine case out of ten, are prosecuted so poorly that the fundamental principle of the invention is lost sight of in fifty per cent of the cases and has been given to the public, the inventor losing all right to the product of his brain as the result of this.

Print ISSN

0096-6460

Published

1921-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J12480