PREVENTING PUBLICATION OF INVENTIONS
PROHIBITING INJUNCTIONS ON PATENTS
COMMITTEE ON PATENTS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
A BILL TO AMEND THE ACT RELATING TO PREVENTING
THE PUBLICATION OF INVENTIONS IN THE NATIONAL
INTEREST, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
A BILL PROHIBITING ISSUANCE AND ENFORCEMENT OF
INJUNCTIONS ON PATENTS WHEN NECESSARY IN
THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
FEBRUARY 20, 25, 26, 27, MARCH 11, 12, 19, 20,
APRIL 22, 23, 1941
Boyle, John, patent attorney, Washington Loan & Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.-
Caldwell, Lt. Comdr. K. C., U. S. Navy, Patent Section..
Carlson, Earl C., patent lawyer, c/o Parker, Carlson, Pitzner & Hub-
bard, 1 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill..
Chicago Patent Law Association (see Benjamin F. Wupper; see Arthur
H. Boettcher).
Christy, Bayard H., patent lawyer, president, Pittsburgh Patent Law
Association, 1621 Farmers Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pa----- 48, 69, 214
Coburn, Hayward H., patent attorney, Philadelphia Patent Law Asso-
ciation, 2000 Girard Trust Co. Building, Philadelphia, Pa..
Coe, Conway P., Commissioner of Patents..
2, 19, 32, 55, 79, 249
Darby, Samuel E., Jr., patent attorney, 405 Lexington Avenue,
New York City.
Dorr, John V. N., chairman, National Advisory Council to the House
Committee on Patents, president, the Dorr Co., engineers, 570
Lexington Avenue, New York City..
Edmonds, Dean S., lawyer, chairman, committee on patent law
and practice, New York Patent Law Association, care of Pennie,
Davis, Marvin & Edmonds, 165 Broadway, New York City..
Edwards, Clifton V., patent attorney, 63 Wall Street, New York City-
Eyre, Richard, patent attorney, care of Bartlett, Eyre, Keel and Wey-
mouth, 36 West Forty-fourth Street, New York City.
Fenning, Karl, patent attorney, National Press Building, Washing-
ton, D. C..-.
10, 22, 33, 71, 82, 256
Hill, Carlton, patent lawyer, representing Illinois Manufacturers
Association, 53 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill...
Illinois Manufacturers Association (see Carlton Hill).
Jackson, Joseph Gray, patent attorney, chairman, legislative com-
mittee, Philadelphia Patent Law Association, 112 South Sixteenth
Street, Philadelphia, Pa...
Langner, Lawrence, international patent lawyer, care of Langner,
Parry, Card & Langner, 120 East Forty-first Street, New York City.
New York Patent Law Association (see Dean S. Edmonds)--- 39, 47, 192
Philadelphia Patent Law Association (see Joseph Gray Jackson; see
Hayward H. Coburn).
Pittsburgh Patent Law Association (see Bayard H. Christy).
Schmidt, Walter A., chairman, patent committee, American Chemical
Society, 1016 West Ninth Street, Los Angeles, Calif
Shea, Francis M., Assistant Attorney General, Claims Division,
Department of Justice.
8, 25, 60, 81, 135, 268
Stowell, Harold T., chairman, laws and rules committee, American
Patent Law Association, 1319 F St. NW., Washington, D. C. 49, 115, 225
Sutton, Loyd H., chairman of the section of patent, trade-mark, and
copyright law, American Bar Association, 700 Tenth Street NW.,
Washington, D. C.........
Toye, F. Gerald, patent lawyer, Munsey Building, Washington, D. C.
Vander werker, Maj. Francis H., War Department Patent Section 5, 30, 57, 107
Walton, Edward R., Jr., patent. lawyer, Munsey Building, Washing-
ton, D. C...
Wenderoth, E. F., patent lawyer, Washington Loan & Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
Wupper, Benjamin F., patent lawyer, Chicago Patent Law Associa-
tion, 2300 Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill..
Coburn, Hayward H., Philadelphia Patent Law Association, pro-
posed redraft of Justice Department redraft, submitted by.
Eyre, Richard, National Advisory Council to House Committee
on Patents, proposed redraft submitted by
Fenning, Karl, Proposed redraft submitted by.
Jackson, Joseph Gray, Philadelphia Patent Law Association,
proposed redraft submitted by-
Lassagne, Theodore, H., proposed redraft submitted by.
Manufacturing Chemists' Association, proposed redraft sub-
mitted by-
Adam, Folger, Joliet, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360.
February 20, 1941 (Thursday)—H. R. 3359.
February 25, 1941 (Tuesday)-H. R. 3359
February 26, 1941 (Wednesday)-H. R. 3360.
February 27, 1941 (Thursday)-H. R. 3359.
March 11, 1941 (Tuesday)-H. R. 3360....
March 12, 1941 (Wednesday)-H. R. 3360.
March 19, 1941 (Wednesday)—H. R. 3360.
March 20, 1941 (Thursday)-hearing canceled.
April 22, 1941 (Tuesday)-H. R. 3360
April 23, 1941 (Wednesday)-H. R. 3360-
Letters, papers, and other memoranda:
Andrus, Elwin A., patent attorney, National Bank Building, Mil-
waukee, Wis., proposed amendments to H. R. 3360-
Arnold, Thurman, Assistant Attorney General in charge of Anti-
trust Division-List of antitrust indictments and complaints, sub-
mitted by-
Bastian-Blessing Co., L. G. Blessing, president, 240 East Ontario St.,
Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360
Letters addressed by Secretary of War and Secretary of Navy to
B. & L. Optical Co. (read into record by Chairman Kramer) -
Beardsley & Piper Co., E. O. Beardsley, president, 2541 North Keeler
Avenue, Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360..
Blenko, Walter J., % Stebbins & Blenko, box 1020, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
letter re H. R. 3360...
Boston Patent Law Association, Nathan Heard, president, 77 Frank-
lin St., Boston, Mass., letter and telegram__
Brown, Robert C., Jr. % Mann, Brown & Cox, 53 West Jackson,
Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360...
Bruton, Henry, "Patent Applications Withheld from Issue for Na-
tional Defense Purposes, article in February 1941, issue of the
George Washington Law Review, volume 9, No. 4, by...
Burgess Battery Co., O. W. Storey, 500 West Huron Street, Chicago,
Ill., letter re H. R. 3360..
Chemical Foundation, Inc., George J. Corbett, vice president, 654
Madison Avenue, New York City, statement re H. R. 3360-
Cherry-Burrell Corporation, W. L. Cherry, president, 427 West Ran-
dolph Street, Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360..
Chicago Association of Commerce, Leverett S. Lyon, chief executive
officer, 1 North La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360
Cleveland Patent Law Association, Robert W. Wilson, president,
406 East Ohio Gas Building, Cleveland, Ohio, letter re H. R. 3360.
Coe, Conway P., Commissioner of Patents, letter re H. R. 3359.
Commerce, Department of, Jesse H. Jones, Secretary of Commerce,
Washington, D. C., letters transmitting drafts of bills, introduced
in House of Representatives as H. R. 3359 and H. R. 3360
Crane Co., J. O. Lange, Engineer of Patents, 4100 South Kedzie
Avenue, Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360..
Darby, John J., care of Cushman, Darby & Cushman, American
Security Building, Washington, D. C., letter re H. R. 3360_ _ _
Darby, Samuel E., Jr., care of Darby & Darby, Chrysler Building, 405
Lexington Avenue, New York City, letter re H. R. 3359 and
H. R. 3360__.
Letter re proposed redraft of 3360 by Francis M. Shea, Assistant
Attorney General..
Dayton Patent Law Association, Lawrence B. Biebel, secretary, 807
Winters Bank Building, Dayton, Ohio, letter re H. R. 3360
Dicke, A. A., 270 Broadway, New York City, letter re H. R. 3359 and
H. R. 3360_
Dienner, John A., care of Brown, Jackson, Boettcher & Dienner,
Monadnock Block, Chicago, Ill., letter re H. R. 3360---
Dow Chemical Co., the, E. C. Burdick, Midland, Mich., letter re
H. R. 3360__
Proposed amendments to H. R. 3359, submitted by.
"Patents and National Defense," article in the December 1940,
issue of the Journal of the Patent Office Society, vol. XXII,
No. 12, by-
Flick, Fulton B., chairman, committee on legislation, Pittsburgh
Patent Law Association, care of Brown, Critchlow & Flick, 1706
First National Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., letter re H. R. 3359-
Goldsmith, Elmer L., care of Lockwood, Goldsmith, and Galt,
Fletcher Trust Building, Indianapolis, letter re H. R. 3360
Harris, Ford W., care of Harris, Kiech, Foster & Harris, Chamber
of Commerce Building, Los Angeles, Calif., letter re H. R. 3360.-
Hawgood, Harvey R., care of Hawgood & Van Horn, 547 Terminal
Tower, Cleveland, Ohio, letters re H. R. 3359 and H. R. 3360_-
Hill, Carlton, care of Charles W. Hills, 53 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Ill.:
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