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Patent Policies Relating to
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PATENT POLICIES RELATING TO

AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE RESEARCH

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON

PATENTS AND SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics

80295

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1962

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS

GEORGE P. MILLER, California, Chairman

NOTE.-The chairman of the full committee and the ranking minority member, Hon. Joseph W. Martin,
Jr., are ex officio members of all subcommittees.

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CONTENTS

Statemet of-

Das, Franklin O., manager, corporate patent department, Thiokol
Gemical Corp. --

Gib, Robert E., General Counsel, Department of Commerce; accom-
Inied by John C. Green, Director of the Office of Technical Services,
ad Gerald E. Stephenson, Office of the General Counsel...

Lad, David L., U.S. Commissioner of Patents;_ accompanied by

dwin Reynolds, First Assistant Commissioner of Patents, and R. L.

ampbell, Patent Office security officer..

Lovinger, Lee, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division,

Department of Justice..

Rechard, Emerson S., Jr., vice president, administration; accompanied
by Robert C. Brown, patent counsel, Aerojet General Corp.
Spencer, Lloyd, patent counsel, California Institute of Technology.
Whiple, Dr. Fred L., Director, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observ-
atoy-

Whit, Byron, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice..

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