This brochure is the result of more than thirty years familiarity with the practice and procedure of the Patent Ofhce and the law as applicable thereto. While it goes without saying that a subject which relates so directly to the industrial welfare of the country should be considered in a temperate and judicial manner, it by no means follows that convictions born of accurate knowledge, and fostered by long and careful reflection, should not be forcibly expressed. The keynote to the following pages is found in the propositions that inventors are benefactors of the human race, that civilization in all its better aspects has become what it is through their efforts ;that the law of patents is based upon justice as promotive of the public welfare ;that inventors go before the Patent Office as a matter Of right, and not as a matter of favor ;that whatever, in the practice of the Patent Office or in its administration of the law, discriminates against the true interests of inventors should be reprobated and reformed ;and that defects in the law itself should be remedied by legislation so firmly and so clearly expressed, that error in its interpretation or mistake in its application may become practically impossible. The appendix comprises suggestions which, it is thought, may, even to experienced inventors, be of some value ;but which are more especially intended for the guidance of those who are novices in threading the useful paths of industrial and scientific improvement.
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