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![handle is hein.intprop/corep0192 and id is 1 raw text is: Patent Office Report for 1943
The Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1943, which includes the Patent Office Report
covering the same period, has not been made available in printed form
this year. The entire Patent Office Report is here printed. It should
be kept in mind that this report covers only the year July 1, 1942 to
June 30, 1943 and that events occurring after June 30, 1943 are not
included.
National Patent Planning Commission
Recommendations for constructive changes in the American
patent system designed to meet present exigencies and to rein-
force industry and commerce in the post-war period were submit-
ted to the President by the National Patent Planning Commis-
sion on June 9, 1943. The president immediately transmitted
the proposals to Congress. These recommendations, it is ex-
pected, will be supplemented by others prompted by the Com-
mission's further investigations now in progress.
The Commission was created by the President on December
12, 1941, and has since been conducting the survey and study
of the patent system he directed it to undertake. In his Execu-
tive order establishing the Commission the President declared
it to be essential even in time of war to plan for a full util-
ization of the Nation's expanded industrial capacity with the
return of peace, a problem to which the inventive genius of our
people can be applied at this time and which also requires a
study to be made of our existing patent laws and procedure, to-
gether with other appropriate action, by a commission familiar
with the problems of science, industry, agriculture, labor, and
the consumer. To that end he authorized and instructed the
Commission to prosecute a comprehensive survey and study of
the American pdtent system and consider whether the system
now provides the maximum service in stimulating the invent-
ive genius of our people in evolving inventions and in furthering
their prompt utilization for the public good; to consider tq
what extent the Government should go in stimulating inventive
effort in normal times, and what methods and plans might be
developed to promote inventions and discoveries which will in-
crease commerce, provide employment, and fully utilize expanded
defense industrial facilities after the return of peace.
The preliminary recommendations presented by the Com-
mission to the President and now awaiting action by Congress
are in summary the following:
[Reprinted from the JOURNAL OF THE PATENT OFFICE SOCIETY, Volume 26,
pages 295-307 (May, 1944)]
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