66# * * * Our Association, as you know, * is not seeking to have the Government favor larger businesses over smaller business or smaller businesses over larger ones.' Kindly refer to page 10 of our October 31 testimony, first full paragraph, from which the quote, just made, is taken. We are simply interested "* in the provision of a better climate to promote invention and innovation, However, if "small-business-concerns" require special help, there is some precedent for specially designed help in 15 U.S.C. 638 Research and development-Declaration of policy. Such directly given help could be beneficial. It would not impinge upon the best service to Government which a uniform patent policy, which involves many disincentives for those best qualified to seek certain Government contracts, could be avoided by such direct help. It has been and is our position that our nation and its individual citizens are, on the whole, by far best served (taxpayers getting what their Government has paid for) by uniform, across-the-board policy. Kindest personal regards, PAUL L. GOMORY, |