tory law and regulations," which is a relief from the padding becoming so common in present day law books There is much of good in the book but it is not the complete vademecum needed for conducting an accounting. K. F.

OF GENERAL AND PERSONAL INTEREST.

Mr. Rudolf J. Eisinger, an assistant examiner in Division 28, resigned February 28, 1926. Mr. Eisinger, who was appointed May 10, 1921, from the District of Columbia, was examining Class 123, Internal Combustion Engines. He is a graduate of George Washington University with the degree of LL. B., and is leaving to go with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Eisinger served for several years as a member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Social Committee of the Patent Office Society.

Mr. Henry E. Norwood, an associate examiner in Division 3, resigned March 7, 1926. Mr. Norwood was appointed January 3, 1911, from Rhode Island, and has been examining Class 75, Metallurgy. For the past two years he has been practically in charge of Division 3, owing to the ill health of the primary examiner. He is leaving to go with the Bethlehem Steel Co., of Bethlehem, Pa.

Mr. Merle C. Kissinger, an associate examiner in Division 41, resigned March 15, 1926. Mr. Kissinger, who was appointed May 1, 1915, from Pennsylvania, has been examining Class 301, Wheel Rims. He is going into the practice of patent law by himself.

Mr. Joseph P. Moran, an assistant examiner in Division 22, who has been examining Class 244, Aeronautics, resigned March 15, 1926. Mr. Moran was appointed July 10, 1922 from Connecticut, and is a graduate of Yale with the degree of B. S., and of Georgetown University with the degree of LL. B.

Mr. Sam B. Smith, a junior examiner of Division 29, resigned March 8, 1926. Mr. Smith, who was appointed July 1, 1924, has been examining Class 51, Abrading. It is understood that he is going with a firm of patent attorneys in New York City.

Mr. Terry B. Morehouse, a junior patent examiner in Division 13, resigned March 30, 1926. Mr. Morehouse, who was appointed from the District of Columbia on November 15, 1924, is a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is going to New York City to engage in patent work with a large corporation.

Mr. William Isler, a junior patent examiner in Division 3, resigned March 30, 1926. Mr. Isler was appointed Jan. 5, 1923, from Kentucky and has been examining Classes 75 and 148, Metallurgy and Metal Treatment, respectively. He has taken the degree of B. S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburgh, and is going to Canton, Ohio, to engage in research and patent work with the United Alloys Steel Corporation.

Mr. Julien D. Wyatt, who was appointed July 7, 1922, from South Carolina, resigned March 30, 1926. Mr. Wyatt, who was a junior patent examiner, assigned to the Trade-Mark Interference Division, is going to Greenville, S. C., to open an office in the practice of general law for himself.

Mr. F. R. Squair was appointed July 1, 1910 and assigned to Division 6. He resigned May 5, 1915, and entered the patent department of DuPonts.

His life was in full harmony with his name and ended on March 26, 1926, at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Patent Attorney, law school graduate desires position with patent law firm or corporation. Have had two years examining experience in the Office and one year on the outside. Available immediately and have no geographical objections. Box 1 c/o May Journal.

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Publication of signed articles in this journal is not to be understood as an adoption by the Patent Office Society of the views expressed therein. The editors are glad to have pertinent articles submitted.

VOL. VIII.

JUNE, 1926.

No. 10.

COMMENT.

Proposed and pending legislation.

In these latter days there have been laws and rumors of laws proposed to reconstruct our patent, copyright and trade-mark systems. Even though some will admit that our patent system has not kept pace with the march of evolution in our social, industrial and political institutions, most Americans will stoutly insist that it is still the best patent system on earth. However, to still further improve it, changes have been proposed at the