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THERE is a feeling among most men engaged in industries that a patent is a bad security for an invention, and that the best way to reap the fruits of an improved chemical process, or of any novel industrial method, is to keep the knowledge secret. This indicates a weakness in the British patent system; and though the matter is a very difficult one to deal with satisfactorily, some change is desirable which will better protect the general public and deal with patentees more justly. Under the system at present in vogue, no examination as to novelty is made before granting the patent.
British Patent Law, and Patentees' Wrongs and Rights.
By Hubert Haes. Pp. xiii + 102. (London: W. B. Whittingham and Co., Ltd., 1896.)
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British Patent Law, and Patentees' Wrongs and Rights. Nature 55, 149 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055149b0
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