government economy where economy is really neces sary. The fact that everything about a trust does not work just to the advantage of the trustful is no argument that the management are not experts on all questions of economy. THE CORPORATE TRUST CO. The door was broke The roof was smoked The bellows choked. He joined the syndicate at last A director's job within his grasp, He lights a pipe no more. His shop and tools are all in stock, He figures now on all he's got Stocks, dividends, and old time friends, As month by month a check at sight, Another blacksmith shop he knows, And thinks that soon he'll share his wealth, With those who have no stock or pelf And can not boom their worldly wealth With their own business laid on the shelf Like a blacksmith's apron When his day's work is done With it's corporation string, all unstrung. "With luxury and pride surrounded, The vile insatiate despots dare Their thirst of power and gold unbounded-To mete and vend the light and air. Like beasts of burden would they load us, Like gods, would bid their slaves adore; But main is man, and" God is more. "Then shall they longer rush and scimp us!" To work to work! ye labor ! The syndicate stock to save! Walk on! walk on! all thoughts resolved BUSINESS AND RAPID A TRANSIT. LL the following may not be as interesting to some readers as a novel with a heroine and a hero, but an excellent opportunity is here provided for reflection and the exercise of logical reasoning. To commence this work. The following is the U. S. Patent Law, which provides for cases where the Patent Office patents the same thing in more than one patent. The below published patent law is surrounded by much other patent legislation. The right hand column is a proposed new law. SEC. NO. 4918. PATENT LAW. "Wherever there are interfering patents, any person interested in any one of them, or in the working of the invention claimed under either of them, may have relief against the interfering patentee, and all parties interested under him, by suit in equity against the owners of the interfering patent; and the court, on notice to adverse parties, and other due proceedings had according to the course of equity, may adjudge A PATENT LAW. Where there are interfering patents a suit in equity may be brought in the United States Courts after due, or usual procedure. THE PATENT LAW, CONT' D. and declare either of the patents void in whole or in part, or inoperative, or invalid in any particular part of the United States, according to the interest of the parties in patent, or the invention patented." "But in no such judgment or adjudication shall effect the The Court shall decide a part of a patent to be invalid. When it is shown that said part of a patent had been previously claimed in a United States patent application by another patentee petitioner; all new ideas of construction, combination, or manufacture of material matter when stated in unlapsed patent claims shall be held by the court to be in force and judgments rendered accordingly. There shall be no damages awarded against the manufacture, or manufacturers of a construction, or a near duplicate thereof, until said construction, (which shall also include all near duplicates, thereof,) has been declared in a previous action of the United States Court to be an infringement; damages be THE PATENT LAW, CONT' D. right of any person except the parties to the suit and those deriving title under them subsequent to the rendition of such judgment." The courts are supposed to render judgments under the present law according to court procedures, as adopted during the past at various times. A PATENT LAW, CONT' D. ing awarded against manufacture after the time infringement by said construction or near duplicate thereof was declared by the United States Court. SEC. 2. The official whose duties are to allow, or issue patents shall patent any new or feasible idea for construction, or combination conforming to the United States Statues, with such limitations as to what shall be patented, as are, or may be enacted; all such limitations and such enactments, and this enactment shall be published in a pamphlet issued by the United States patent office containing the rules of practice of said office. SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act, or with any of the provisions thereof, be, and the same are hereby repealed. This requires no previous court decisions as a guide. |