...remedial. Unless we are to overturn settled principles the paragraph in question must be eliminated. A patent owner is not in the position of a quasi-trustee...invention in his application so that it will come into the public domain at the end of the 17-year period of exclusive right he has f ulfilled the only obligation...

...remedial. Unless we are to overturn settled principles the paragraph in question must be eliminated. [15] A patent owner is not in the position of a quasi-trustee...invention in his application so that it will come into the public domain at the end of the 17year period of exclusive right he has fulfilled the only obligation...

...utilizing his discovery without his consent"); Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States, 323 US 386, 432 ("A patent owner is not in the position of a quasi-trustee...either to use it or to grant its use to others."), clarified, 324 US 570 (1945); Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States, 309 US 436, 457 (1940) (holding...

...defendant from applying for patents with an intent not to use the invention or to withhold it from others: A patent owner is not in the position of a quasi-trustee for the public or under any obligation to sec that the public acquires the free right to use the invention. He has no obligation either to use...

...78. Id. at 1359. 79. See. eg, Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States, 323 US 386, 432-33 (patent owner "has no obligation either to use it or to grant its use to others"), clarified, 324 US 570 (1945); Cont'l Paper Bag Co. v. E. Paper Bag Co., 210 US 405, 429 (1908) ("exclusion...

...remedies for violations of that right."). 106 Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States, 323 US 386, 432 (1945) ("A patent owner is not in the position of a quasi-trustee...either to use it or to grant its use to others."); Mercoid, 320 US at 666 ("The fact that the patentee has the power to refuse a license does not enable...