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public boon every new and butler way of doing an old thing. 



Perhaps 1 can besl describe to the redder what our patent system is 

 designed to be by first explaining what an inventor is. Any person is 

 an inventor who devises a new tiling or tinds a new use for an old thing. 

 If this new thing or the new use for an old thing is useful — of utility 

 and value to others— they" night to have the use of it, and derive the 

 benefits to be obtained from its use. 



Here is where the patent system comes in. The < iovernment employs 

 trained experts to determine if inventions submitted to them are new 

 and useful. These experts being human beings like the rest of us are 

 not infallible, but they know quite a good deal about their business. 

 "What they don't know your lawyer, or my lawyer, or someone else's 

 lawyer tells them, — sometimes, when it becomes necessary. It is not 

 for you or 1 to tell them their business or question their decisions unless 

 we have a personal interest in the matter and know more about it than 

 they do — quite possible. 



When the patent office experts have searched all of the records and 

 rind that what the inventor claims to be original with him has never 

 before been described, either in this or any other country, and there is 

 no evidence of its being known to the public for more than two years 

 prior to the application, and it appears to be of public utility, they 

 grant that the invention is the property of the man who invented it and, 

 being his property, he shall have exclusive control of it for a term of 

 seventeen years. After thai it becomes the property of the public; for 

 it is presumed that the inventor, or someone who has purchased his 

 patent rights has succeeded in getting it into use and has obtained his 

 reward. 



In this way our. patent system accomplishes two things. It grants 

 the right of the inventor to own and control his own property so that 

 by selling it in whole or in part, or by letting it out for rent in whole 

 or in part he can stand some chance of getting paid for his labor and 

 also he able to make his invention of use to others. The inventor or 

 his assigns are obliged to advertise the invention, or the goods that are 

 made with the invention, or the benefits that the people can obtain from 

 the invention, in order to get his pay. That lets the people know 

 about the new thing and they can purchase that which is designed to 

 be of use to them. 



Some people do not like the paten! system for the reason that they 

 are selfish and do not believe in justice. Justice does not ask us what 

 we want, but seeks to give all of us what belongs to us. and protect us 

 in its posession. 



Justice is well represented as being blindfolded. That is why she 

 sometimes fails (o connect with the right owner. 



It is a popular delusion that we can rightfully make a patented device 

 for our use without asking anyone or paying anything for it. 



Shyster lawyers sometimes foster such a notion in the hope that they 

 may gel a chance to defend the infringer in a suit at law. He gets his 

 pay, win or loose. No one can legally make or use any kind of a pat- 

 ented invention except by means provided and controlled by law and 

 the owner of I he palenl. 



The palenl system, direct I y and indirectly, has done more to promote 

 our progress in every direction I ban all oilier causes combined. 



Agriculture, has been benefited wonderfully as a result of our palenl 

 laws, liishonesl schemers -have made popular ignorance and popular 



