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SIR CORNELIUS NEALE DALTON, whose death occurred on October 19 at seventy-eight years of age, was Comptroller-General of Patents from 1897 to 1909. When, in 1901, the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the working of the Patent Acts reported in favour of an examination for novelty, within certain limits, being undertaken by the office, Sir C. N. Dalton laid down the lines on which the examination has since been conducted, and recommended and carried out the necessary scheme of reorganisation. His strength lay in his tact, energy, and power of organisation, and these enabled him to carry out alterations in the law and practice of patents, though it may be doubted whether the changes were to the advantage of the inventor. He was hon. D.C. L. of Oxford, was created K. C. M. G. in 1908, and was chairman of the council of the East London College.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 287 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106287d0
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