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1 James H. Colwell, Observations Pertaining to Examiners' Duties and Their Actions with Particular Reference to Rules 65 and 66: A Paper Read March 25, 1915, before the Examining Corps of the United States Patent Office 1 (1915)

handle is hein.intprop/opexd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Observations Pertaining to Examiners' Duties and Their Actions with Par- ticular Reference to Rules 65 and 66. By J. H. COLWELL, Principal Examiner, Division Twenty-two, United States Patent Office. The foundation of the present patent laws is the examination system, and the results that have been achieved are in large part due to that system. The commercial and practical value of an invention, not infrequently hinges, and is dependent upon the care- ful preparation of the application papers, and the skilled prosecution of the case by the applicant, or his attorney on the one hand; but, on the other by an exhaustive and thorough search of the accessible art by the Patent Office. The first is beyond direct office control; the law, however, not only imposes upon the examining corps, in each individual case, the duty of exhausting every means at its disposal to protect the public, and give real value to a patent, by placing on the record the known art at its command; but also when an Examiner, by his etperience and knowledge of the art, sees the real merits and novelty of the invention, it is due to an applicant to make any proper and legitimate suggestions that will expedite the prosecution of the case, and will aid him in securing adequate protection. A strict adherence to the requirements of the Rules of Practice by the examining corps in the examination of cases, would, to a large extent, lessen and alleviate the many evils and troubles which are multiplied by lack of proper office facilities, and insufficient force, while, at the same time, it would greatly aid an inventor who is honestly desirous of se- curing a patent for a practical and meritorious invention. 1-3615

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