Investigation of Government Patent Practices and Policies: Report and Recommendations of the Attorney General to the President, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - Patent laws and legislation |
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Page 76 - As a basic policy, all contracts for research and development work financed with Federal funds should contain a stipulation providing that the Government shall be entitled to all rights to inventions produced in the performance of the contract.
Page 21 - The head of the bureau or office shall indicate whether, in his judgment, the invention is liable to be used in the public interest, and he shall set out the facts supporting his conclusion whenever the employee's invention report does not contain sufficient information on this point.
Page 79 - In planning the release of scientific data and experience collected in connection with the war, we must not overlook the fact that research has gone forward under many auspices — the Army, the Navy, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, other departments and agencies of the Government, educational institutions, and many industrial organizations. There have been numerous cases of independent discovery of the same truth in different places....
Page 32 - The inventors were not only employed to engage in work which unmistakably required them to exercise their inventive genius as occasion arose; they were a part of a public enterprise. It was devoted to the improvement of the art of radio communication for the benefit of the people of the United States, carried on in a Government laboratory, maintained by public funds. Considerations which might favor the employee where the interest of the employer is only in private gain are therefore of slight significance;...
Page 4 - ... Where patentable inventions are made in the course of performing a Government-financed contract for research and development, the public interest requires that all rights to such inventions be assigned to the Government and not left to the private ownership of the contractor. Public control will assure free and equal availability of the inventions to American industry and science; will eliminate any competitive advantage to the contractor chosen to perform the research work; will avoid undue...
Page 91 - Economic Concentration and World War II, Report of the Smaller War Plants Corporation to the Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business, United States Senate, 79th Cong., 2nd sess., Senate Committee Plant No.
Page 2 - Inventions financed with public funds should inure to the benefit of the public, and should not become a purely private monopoly under which the public may be charged for, or even denied, the use of technology which it has financed. The weight of informed opinion and the evidence of experience establish that the ownership of patent rights is not a necessary form of incentive to the great majority of Government scientists and technicians.
Page 1 - REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO THE PRESIDENT PATENT POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES RELATING TO INVENTIONS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS I have the honor to submit my FINAL REPORT of the investigation which the Department of Justice undertook at the request of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943, dealing with the patent policies and practices of the several departments and agencies of the Government concerning inventions made by their employees and contractors....
Page 33 - ... a shop-right in the government would not confer it. For these employees, in the circumstances, to attempt to withhold from the public and from the government the full benefit of the inventions which it has paid them to produce, appears to me so unconscionable and inequitable as to demand the interposition of a court exercising chancery powers. A court which habitually enjoins a mortgagor from acquiring and setting up a tax title adversely to the mortgagee, Middletown Savings Bank v.
Page 146 - ... agencies: Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of the Interior Department of Labor Department of the Treasury...