GERMAN PATENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2824, 15 July 1916, Page 10

GERMAN PATENTS

BRITISH FIRM GRANTEB T.ICENSK > TO USE ENEMY INVENTION.

A. novel form of enemy patents application came before the British Patents Court recently, ftnee tl'fc \;'iir broke out manufacturers hnve applied for a Board of Trado license to take a German patent and to manufiicturo under it in this country. But all applications so far ■ have related to what are. called "sealed patents." There have, however, been hundreds of applications from the Continent, including German and Austrian, for the registration of new patputs. These have not bfcen granted. The applicants have been required to file specifications, but. ihere the process luis stopDcil. Patents hnvo not been registered, ■ sealed, and issued by . the authorities. By special legislation nassed this year it is now open to British mnmifactim-rs to apply to use these unsealed inventions for which patents have been applied for as though they were patents duly coinnleled and sealed. t Tn this. Ihe first application was by Mj'. Walter Tyr.ack, managing director of Necdham Veall end Tvzack, and Mr. -Albert Hobson, of the firm of Thomns Turner and Co., both of Sheffield, applied for a license to make the Tinimer grinding machine in order to turn out. knives i'l large nuantitie.s to supply (he War Office orders. Mr. Tyzack snid Tie did not propose to ask for profits to justifv largo royalty on those machine s . He was ap. plying largely for the Sheffield Cutlery Association, which was interested in the grinding nuestion. The application was opposed on tohalf Boswell. Hatfield, and Co., Ltd., of Sheffield, but the Controller said ho thought t.lia applicants should be givpn the license asked for, and a similar licence should bo granted to Messrs. ISos- | well, Hatfield, and Co., if they applied I for it.