AGENCIES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT-1959

HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

SELECT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

THE EFFECT OF FEDERAL PATENT POLICIES ON COM-
PETITION, MONOPOLY, ECONOMIC GROWTH,

AND SMALL BUSINESS

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DECEMBER 8, 9, AND 10, 1959

Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Small Business

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1960

CONTENTS

Statement of-

Action Manufacturing Co., 4567 Bermuda Street, Philadelphia, Pa.,

Harry Stern, president____

Aerojet-General Corp., Sacramento, Calif., Emerson S. Reichard, Jr.,

director of contracts__

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44

70

345, 354

Agriculture, Department of, True D. Morse, Assistant Secretary, and
W. D. Maclay, Assistant Administrator__
American Bar Association, Munsey Building, Washington, D.C., An-
drew B. Beveridge, chairman, legislation, section of patent, trade-
mark, and copyright law (app. XIV).

American Patent Law Association, 802 National Press Building,
Washington, D.C., Henry H. Webb, president (app. V).

Anderson, A. Roland, Assistant General Counsel for Patents, Atomic

Energy Commission, accompanied by Philip G. Read, small-business

specialist

Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 30 Broad Street, New

York, N.Y., William H. Davis, committee on patents (app. XI)‒‒‒‒

Atomic Energy Commission, Roland A. Anderson, General Counsel for

patents---.

Bannerman, G. C., Director, Office of Procurement Policy, Department

of Defense..

445

417

234

438

234

282

Banta, Parke M., General Counsel, Department of Health, Education,

and Welfare; accompanied by Manuel B. Hiller, Office of General

Counsel, and Arthur H. Bissell, Office of the Surgeon General_---- 355, 361

Bennett, Reynold, executive patent committee, National Association of
Manufacturers, 2 East 48th Street, New York, N.Y. (app. VI)---.
Beveridge, Andrew B., chairman, section of patent, trademark, and
copyright law, American Bar Association, Munsey Building, Wash-
ington, D.C. (app. XIV)_

419

445

422

444

Bicks, Robert A., Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Divi-
sion, Department of Justice (app. VIII).

Bjorksten, J., president, Bjorksten Research Laboratories, Inc., 2405
Norfolk Street, Houston, Tex. (app. XIII).

Boston Patent Law Association, 140 Federal Street, Boston, Mass., W.

Bigelow Hall, president (app. III)--

413

78

Brown, Robert C., patent counsel, Aerojet-General Corp., Sacra-
mento, Calif.

438, 441

Crews, Floyd H., representative of the New York Patent Law Asso-
ciation, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. (app. XII).
Davis, William H., committee on patents, Association of the Bar of
the City of New York, 30 Broad Street, New York, N.Y. (app. XI)--
Defense, Department of, James P. Falvey, Deputy Assistant Secre-
tary, (Supply and Logistics).

Eastern Rotocraft Corp., Route 313, Post Office Box 110, Doylestown,

Pa., J. P. Perry, president (app. VII).

Falvey, James P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and
Logistics), accompanied by G. C. Bannerman, director, Office of
Procurement Policy; Howard Williamson, Office of Procurement
Policy; R. Tenney Johnson, Office of General Counsel; Capt. R. A.
Fitch, Assistant Chief of Naval Research for Patents; and D. C.
Snyder, Office of Naval Research.

439

279

419

279, 338

Fitch, Capt. R. A., Assistant Chief of Naval Research for Patents___. 292

General Electric Co., 777 14th Street NW., Washington, D.C., F.

Gerald Toye, Washington counsel (app. X).

435

Goodrich, B. F., Co., Akron, Ohio, A. Kelly, executive vice president,

(app. II).

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