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Several  other  journals  were  to  have  been  reviewed,  but  the  mem- 
bers who  had  agreed  to  take  them  were  unable  to  be  present. 
Mr.  Snow  was  appointed  to  arrange  for  the  next  meeting  of  the 
club,  to  be  held  at  the  same  hour  and  place  on  December  2d. 
At  the  December  meeting,  Mr.  C.  N.  Snow  presided.  The  report 
of  the  committee  appointed  at  the  preceding  meeting  to  draft  reso- 
lutions regarding  the  decision  of  Patent-Commissioner  Allen  in  the 
case  of  the  protest  made  by  the  committee  of  the  National  Associa- 
tion of  Retail  Druggists  was  received,  and  the  resolutions  reported 
were  unanimously  adopted.  The  chairman  was  instructed  to  send 
copies  of  the  resolutions  to  each  Congressman  and  Senator  from 
Illinois,  as  well  as  to  the  President.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the 
resolutions: 
Whereas,  The  interests  of  legitimate  medicine  are  seriously  injured  and 
threatened  through  the  operation  of  the  patent  laws  of  the  United  States,  under 
which  patents  may  be  obtained  not  only  on  the  process  of  manufacture,  but  on 
the  finished  product,  and 
Whereas,  Protection  in  the  process  of  manufacture  is  amply  sufficient  to 
stimulate  inventive  genius,  and  promote  in  the  highest  degree  adequate  reward 
for  the  talent  and  labor  employed  in  the  discovery  of  remedial  agents,  and 
WHEREAS,  Protection  in  the  patent  of  the  product  inevitably  tends  to  dis- 
courage inventive  genius  in  the  discovery  of  improved  methods  of  manufacture 
tending  to  higher  qualities  and  increased  efficiency  in  remedial  agents,  and 
WHEREAS,  The  laws  of  other  nations,  notably  those  of  Germany,  recognize  no 
right  of  patent  in  the  finished  product,  but  wisely  and  equitably  limit  such  pro- 
tection to  original  processes  of  manufacture,  and 
Whereas,  Under  existing  treaties  between  the  United  States  and  foreign 
nations  the  citizens  of  such  foreign  nations  are  given  all  the  privileges  enjoyed 
by  the  citizens  of  the  United  States,  thus  supplying  them  with  a  degree  of  pro- 
tection not  accorded  them  under  their  own  government,  and  which  tends  to 
grievous  extortion  in  the  sale  of  such  foreign  products  in  the  United  States,  and 
to  the  establishment  of  merciless  monopolies,  therefore  be  it 
Resolved,  That  we  denounce  the  defense  of  such  discriminating  legislation 
by  Commissioner  of  Patents  Allen  as  opposed  to  the  dictates  of  justice,  to  the 
rights  of  domestic  inventors,  and  to  the  interests  of  American  manufacturers 
and  of  retail  pharmacists  in  every  State,  and  be  it  further 
Resolved,  That  we  favor  a  renewed  appeal  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States,  invoking  his  aid  in  such  revision  of  existing  treaties  with  foreign  nations 
as  shall  extend  to  foreign  manufacturers  in  this  country  such  privileges  only 
as  they  respectively  enjoy  in  their  own  country,  and  as  American  manufacturers 
and  American  inventors  enjoy  in  such  country.  We  also  ask  the  Congress  to 
so  revise  the  patent  laws  of  the  United  States  as  shall  permit  protection  in  the 
process  of  manufacture  only,  and  not  in  the  product. 
