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6 B THURSDAY. JULY 25. 1963 MLDFOHO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON Efforts Under Way to Streamline Patent Office By JOSEPH D. HUTNYAN United Press International Washington -IUPD- If U.S. Patent Commissioner David L. Ladd were the melodra matic type you could proba bly find him looking through his office window crying out plaintively: "Technology, technology ev erywhere - but not a drop for me." The 36-year-old commis sioner is presiding over a gov ernmental activity whose problems must present one of the classic ironies of our time. The nation is in the midst of an unprecedented burst of inventiveness and technolog ical progress that is helping everyone-and slowly crushing the Patent Office to death un der a mountainous workload. Ladd, who is far from the wailiiv type, is making a spir ited effort to reorganize his office. The outcome could de termine whether the present system will survive. His new approach includes trying to adapt some of the new technology to speeding ud the nrocessing of patents r But so far. this phase of the t reorganization has had only limited success. Not Easy Job Ladd, a former Chicago patent lawyer, stresses that the job of saving We present system won't be easy. "The situation is not des ! perate," he said in an inter view. "But on the other hand, the Patent Office has been ; chronically behind for a long 3 time. I think the time has come when we will have to make a decision." . Ladd said that if the pres ent reorganization does not improve the situation by the middle of next year, "there should be a comprehensive re vision of the patent law." The root of the problem Is the growing increase in patent applications, which reached 80,220 . in 1962. This was 16,000 more than the office received 10 years ago. The crush is so great that it now takes about 3V4 years from the time the application Is submitted until final action Is taken. The backlog at pres ent is running about 107,000. Information Explosion This "information explo sion" - as Ladd terms It - Is one of the products of an age f of frantic technological activ ity, sourred by defense re. t quirements and an unquench. a able thirst for a higher stand- U ard of living. f Inventive fashions are changing, too. Once the Inventor was synv bolized by (he chap who put tered around in the garage or the basement. That is no longer true. Technology now Is mass produced in sleek new plants where large teams of white coated scientists work at the job every day of the week. In addition to this big in crease in volume of new ap plications, the Patent Office is harassed by these other problems: The growing stack of pat ents that must be checked when a new application comes In is increasing to the point where 3,000 additional square lcet will be needed every year to house them. This time-consuming ac tivity is aggravated by a lack of trained personnel. Private industry is continually hiring away patent examiners. Reclasiiilcatlon Ladd's reorganization in cludes reclassification of the 10 million patents on file Into fewer categories to speed up the examining process. The patents also are being filed with more logical emphasis on their subject matter. For instance, some of the previous groupings contained such dissimilar subjects as: threshing, knottcrs, harvest- History Conference Planned Saturday Ashland - Dr. Vaughn Bor net, chairman of the social science division at Southern Oregon College, will be among the speakers Saturday at the third annual Southern Oregon History conference to be held here. Dr. Bornct will speak Sat urdey morning prior to luncheon In the Mark Antony hotel on the subject "Cen turies Ago: The U.S. In 1928." Dr. Hector Lee, Cotatl Calif., dean of instruction at Sonoma State college, will be the afternoon speaker. His topic will be "Blood and Bones Buried In Your Own Cascu dia." Other activities include a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Jacksonville Museum in Jacksonville end attend ance at the performance of "Henry V" that evening at the Oregon Shakespearean theater in Ashland. Dr. Arthur S. Taylor is chairman of the conference. Dust is fire hazard. Re move It from electric motors before they become inefficient or burn out. A fire can result that's hard to put out. era, animal husbandry, bee culture and acoustics. Now the stacks of patents arc filed under such headings as: "General Chemistry," "Pe troleum C h e m i si r y," and "Coatings and Laminating." The commissioner also is at tacking the personnel prob lem by trying to improve working conditions. Examin ers' salaries have been raised. Promotions now are governed by competency instead of sen iority. A new 22-week training pro gram for examiners is aimed at taking a first-year man and raising him to the competency of an examiner with three years experience. In addition, the commission er has set up a research and development section to try to find ways of adapting auto mated techniques to the labor ious process of searching pat ents. So far, there is no signifi cant break-through. It seems that science's fancy new com puters are capable of doing just about anything except checking out patents. Nixon Cautions on Coexistence Line Of Soviet Premier Berlin-OTD-Richard M. Nix on today warned against ac cepting Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev's "coexist ence line" which he said would perpetuate Communist domination of peoples who want to be free. He told a news conference following visiting to Red-run East Berlin that it is "the most woolly type of think ing" to believe that Soviet acceptance of a partial test ban means the Russians want to relax tension. He said the Communists, instead of trying to end the cold war, have stepped it up in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Should U Power Nixon said in all negotia tions with Khrushchev the United States should "insist on freedom for the peoples on whom Communist dicta torships have been imposed against their will, and the United States should use all ita power economic, diplo matic and ideological - to get some relief for repressed peo ples." "We should not buy Khru shchev's coexistence line in which he is saying he will draw a line down the world, keep what he has and try for more." "I am not advocating a pre ventive war," he added. "But our goal must be not only peace, but peace in freedom. "Every time Khrushchev huffs and puffs there is a crisis. When he stops huffing and puffing we say there is peace. But then there is more repression than ever. "Some say Khrushchev now is beginning to end the cold war. The contrary is true. The Iron Curtain in Berlin is tighter than ever before. "In Budapest there is a lit tle less repression, but there is more now in Warsaw. The Communists are stepping up the cold war. They are ex panding on all fronts. "In Latin America now we have the greatest danger from communism that ever existed there." Nixon said "short of war" the United States should stand up to the Soviets. He cited what he called "two major foreign policy errors" of the United States, one made in President Eisenhower's ad ministration and the other in President Kennedy's. For Same Reason He said these were the American reaction to the Hungarian revolt in 1956 and the reaction to the Berlin wall in 1961. "Both errors were made for the same reason," he said. "There was justifiable con cern that more action than was taken would have run great risks. But looking back now we were in a position where the Communists were willing to take greater risks to extend their system than we were to extend freedom." Nixon held his news con ference before flying to the West German city of Frank furt. 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