Présentation de l'éditeur
Patent Bill intimated in the Queen sspeech having been introduced, and two others read a second time (without the usual discussion that is especially desirable when reference to a Grand Committee is intended), this volume, which has long been in type and sheets, is sent forth as a repository of opinions, in the hope that it will prove useful. Much recent matter might be added, but the number. of pages is already excessive. The compiler, who can look back to Evidence he gave nearly a third of a century ago, is sorry that during three decades the advocates of what he believes to be highly pernicious have been far more active in promulgating their increased and increasinsj demands than the defenders of Public rights and interests, in spite of the significant Report of the Royal Commission on Patent Law in 1865, and in face of the Report of the Commons Committee in 1870- We do not contend that in no case whatever should there be the protection and stimulus of a patent. On the contrary, there are, even in modern times, exceptional cases in which, were there no such protection, improvements of importance would not be at any rate so promptly tried and proved and brought into practice ;but these cases are rare. The condemnation of the present law is, that it favours the preservation of monopolies when they are unnecessary and injurious.
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