Independent Patent and Trademark Office Act: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2079 ... January 24 and March 12, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 327 pages |
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Page 193 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 238 - Such secondary considerations as commercial success, long felt but unsolved needs, failure of others, etc., might be utilized to give light to the circumstances surrounding the origin of the subject matter sought to be patented. As indicia of obviousness or nonobviousness, these inquiries may have relevancy.
Page 253 - Commissioner will determine whether a substantial new question of patentability affecting any claim of the patent concerned is raised by the request, with or without consideration of other patents or printed publications.
Page 27 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 109 - Sutton, chairman of the section of patent, trade-mark, and copyright law of the association.
Page 258 - DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: At the meeting of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association held August 10-11, 1982 the attached resolution was adopted upon recommendation of the Section of Criminal Justice.
Page 256 - On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b...
Page 112 - Treatise, s 2.9 (2d ed. 1978). -27within the Department of Commerce. If one looks at the organization chart of the Commerce Department in the Government Manual, it is apparent that the Patent and Trademark Office comprises but the little toenail of the body politic of the Department of Commerce. In a nation such as ours this is a disgrace. • If the Congress is to implement its power under the Constitution to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, the Patent and Trademark Office must...
Page 194 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: My name is Eric Schellin. I am Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Small Business Association (NSB), a multi-industry trade association representing approximately 50,000 small business firms nationwide.
Page 102 - At this point in the record I would like to insert the article on this subject contained in the Wall Street Journal dated July 28, 1955.