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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. He said he would drive
from Kronberg Castle, near
Frankfurt, to Bonn Friday
and meet with German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer.
From Germany he will go
to Paris where he will lunch
with President Charles de
Gaulle.
Approximately 50 per cent
of all one-family homes in the
United States were built be
fore 1929, note building au
thorities at Allied Chemical's
Barrett Division.
The addition of a screened
in porch is one of the most
popular summertime projects
for do-it-yourselfers, accord
ing to building authorities at
Allied Chemical's Barrett Division.
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