Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands

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Compiler

Macfie, R. A. (Robert Andrew), 1811-1893

Title

Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands : Evidence, speeches, and papers in its favour

Original Publication

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

Credits

Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

T: Technology

Subject

Patents

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72096

Release Date

November 11, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.RECENT DISCUSSIONS ON THE ABOLITION OF PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, GERMANY, AND THE NETHERLANDS.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.LETTER FROM PROFESSOR THOROLD ROGERS.
5. 5.REMARKS ON A RECENT ARTICLE.
6. 6.SPEECHES AND PAPERS ON THE ABOLITION OF PATENTS.
7. 7.Untitled
8. 8.NOTES OF SPEECH OF MR. MACFIE, M.P. — New System of Rewarding Inventors and Promoting the Publication of Inventions.
9. 9.SPEECH OF SIR R. PALMER, K.B., M.P.
10. 10.SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD STANLEY, M.P.
11. 11.PATENT RIGHT.
12. 12.ARE INVENTIONS PROPERTY? — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — Additional Chapters (from the May Number of the Journal des Economistes ). — II. — III.
13. 13.SPEECH OF MICHEL CHEVALIER, AT THE MEETING OF THE “SOCIÉTÉ D’ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE,” ON THE 5TH JUNE, 1869.
14. 14.EXPERIENCE IN FRANCE. — THE RESULTS OF A BAD LAW. — I. — II.
15. 15.IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE CONFEDERATION, COUNT VON BISMARCK, TO THE NORTH GERMAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.
16. 16.PROPOSITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF PATENTS IN HOLLAND. — Session of Tuesday, 22nd June.
17. 17.FROM THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT MEMORIAL.
18. 18.OPINION OF THE LEADING JOURNAL OF HOLLAND, THE “ALGEMEEN HANDELSBLAD.” — EXTRACT FROM AN OBLIGING PRIVATE LETTER. — FROM THE “FRANKFORT JOURNAL,” JULY 21.
19. 19.PROCEEDINGS IN LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
20. 20.CORRESPONDENCE. — FROM SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, C.B. — FROM ANOTHER HIGH PRACTICAL AUTHORITY, LIKEWISE A NOTABLE INVENTOR. — FROM ANDREW JOHNSTON, ESQ., M.P.
21. 21.ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN COPYRIGHT AND PATENT-RIGHT. — Extract from “The Patent Question under Free-Trade,” 1863.
22. 22.MODIFICATIONS OF THE PATENT SYSTEM.
23. 23.Scheme submitted to the International Association for the Progress of the Social Sciences at Brussels in 1863.
24. 24.OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT ON THE PATENT QUESTION. — Leading Article from the “Times,” May 29, 1869. — Leading Article from the “Economist,” June 5, 1869. — Leading Article from the “Spectator,” June 5, 1869. — Extract from the “Saturday Review,” June 5, 1869.
25. 25.EXTRACTS FROM RECENT CLASS PERIODICALS. — A Good Illustration and Bad Argument. — Growth of Strange Views among Surgeons. — What Preliminary Investigation Requires. — Hard Pushed for a Defence of Patents. — PATENT RIGHTS AND PATENT WRONGS.
26. 26.REPORT OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF COLOGNE ON THE PATENT QUESTION.
27. 27.EXTRACTS FROM M. VERMEIRE.
28. 28.MOVEMENTS IN GERMANY, BELGIUM, AND HOLLAND. — EXTRACT OF LETTER, BRUSSELS, JUNE 11, 1869. — GERMANY. — EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF AN EMINENT HOUSE IN COLOGNE. — EXTRACT FROM “DIE PATENTS GESETZGEBUNG ALLER LANDER,” BY DR. R. KLOSTERMANN (BERLIN, 1869). — HOLLAND.
29. 29.ON PERPETUITY OF PATENT-RIGHT.
30. 30.NOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF MR. MACFIE’S SPEECH. — THE AMERICAN PATENT-LAW. — HINDMARCH ON “VENDING OR SELLING.” — SUGGESTIVE EXTRACTS FROM DR. PERCY’S WORKS ON METALLURGY. — The Copper Trade. — The Hot Blast. — WORKING MEN AS INVENTORS. — THE INVENTORS’ INSTITUTE. — JUSTIFICATION OF STATE REWARDS. — THE PATENT-OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT.
31. 31.NOTES AND EXTRACTS ON ROYALTY IN COPYRIGHT, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS AFFECTING NORTH AMERICA.
32. 32.INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.
33. 33.SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF COPYRIGHT FOR BOOKS, BY MR. MACFIE. — I. — II. CHAPTER FROM M. RENOUARD’S “TRAITÉ DES DROITS D’AUTEURS.”
34. 34.EXTRACTS ON INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. — EXTRACT FROM THE COBDEN CLUB PRIZE ESSAY, BY DR. LEAVITT, OF NEW YORK. 1869. — (From The Bookseller , June 1, 1869.) — (Extract from the Atlantic Monthly , October, 1867.) — (Extract from the American Booksellers’ Guide , June 1, 1869.) — (Extracts from an Article in the Athenæum , July 17, 1869.) — FROM A MANUSCRIPT STATEMENT BY MR. PURDAY. — LETTER FROM THE SAME.
35. 35.EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE ON COPYRIGHT LAW IN CANADA. — Extract from a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council of Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the 27th May, 1868. — ( From Memorandum by the Minister of Finance. ) — ( From Mr. Lovell. ) — ( Extract from Letter from Sir Louis Mallet to the Under-Secretary of State, C.O. ) — ( Extract from a Paper by the Minister of Finance on the Copyright-Law in Canada. )
36. 36.TENDENCIES OF COPYRIGHT AMENDERS.
37. 37.COLONIAL DUTIES ON COPYRIGHT WORKS.
38. 38.EXAMINATIONS BY CUSTOMS’ OFFICERS.
39. 39.THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BOOK TRADE. — Books Printed in the United Kingdom, Exported therefrom.
40. 40.Untitled
41. 41.INDEX.
42. 42.ERRATA.

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