PAPERS READ SECTION OF PATENT LAW YEAR. NAME ..... SUBJECT. Patent Law and Practice. .Address as Chairman. Preliminary Injunctions. The Conditions under Which Preliminary Injunctions in Patent Causes Should Be Granted or Refused. Masters in Chancery. What Constitutes Invention in the Sense of the Patent Law. Shall There be One or More Special Courts of Last Resort in Patent Causes. Address as Chairman. Unfair Competition in Trade. . Copyright for Design. .Address as Chairman. Pending Trade-Mark Legislation. Trade Marks: Criminal Remedy. Preliminary Injunction in Patent Suits. History and Present Status of the Law Relating to Designs. Patent Litigation from the Expert's Standpoint. Evils of the Present System of Producing Evidence in Equity Causes and a Remedy Therefor. . Is the Entire Jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts in the Matter of Suits for the Infringement of Patents Defined by the Act of March 3, 1897? Concerning Federal Trade-Mark Legislation: Its Needs, Whence and What the Power. SUBJECT. Liability of Officers of a Corpora- Address as Chairman, on Some A Brief Review of Legislation Proposed at the Latest Session of Congress Pertinent to Patents and Trade-Marks. ...Are any Changes Desirable in Our Patent System? ..Needed Reforms in Interference Practice. The Evolution of the Law of Common Law Copyright. Facie Rights of the Patentee. .Abolition of Interference Causes in the Patent Office. The Law's Promise to the Patentee and Its Fulfillment. Looking Forward. Mechanical Equivalents. Liability of the United States for Use of Patented Inventions; with Special Reference to the Act of Congress Entitled "An Act to Provide Additional Protection for Owners of Patents of the United States and for Other Purposes." The Relation of the Doctrine of Equivalents to the Interpretation of Claims of Patents. The Burden of Proof in Accounting Proceedings in Patent Suits. Trade Mark Registration. .Address as Chairman. Procedure at the Trial of Patent Causes in Great Britain. OF THE COMPARATIVE LAW SECTION The annual meeting of the Comparative Law Section of the American Bar Association was held in the Daniel Boone Room of the Hotel Statler, St. Louis, Missouri on August 25, 1920, at 2.30 P. M. Wm. W. Smithers, Chairman of the Section, presided. The Secretary reported that the By-Laws drafted by the Chairman had been submitted to and approved by the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association. The Secretary read the report of the work of his office during the past year, which, on motion duly seconded and carried, was approved and ordered to be made a part of the minutes. The following officers and members of the Council of the Comparative Law Section of the American Bar Association were elected for the ensuing year: Chairman, Wm. W. Smithers. Vice-Chairman, Charles S. Lobingier. Council: Simeon E. Baldwin, Connecticut; Seymour C. Loomis, Connecticut; Roscoe Pound, Massachusetts; Andrew A. Bruce, Minnesota; John H. Wigmore, Illinois; John S. Lehmann, Missouri; W. O. Hart, Louisiana; Walter S. Penfield, Washington, D. C. · It was resolved unanimously that the Comparative Law Section should have one number of the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL devoted to the purposes of its bulletin as heretofore, and as further provided for in the By-Laws of the Section. Burt E. Barlow then offered the Section and handed to the Secretary a draft for one hundred dollars as his contribution to a fund of one thousand dollars to be subscribed for the purposes of securing the publication of the translation of Las Siete Partidas, as made by S. P. Scott of Hillsboro, Ohio, the contributions to the said fund to be repaid out of the profits of the publication of that translation. The offer of Mr. Barlow was accepted. The translation of the Civil Code of Brazil into English by Joseph Wheless was discussed. Mr. Wheless offered the translation to the Section for adoption by it as one of its translations of foreign civil codes. This matter was referred to the Chairman, Wm. W. Smithers, with power to him to act in the matter. The Chairman thereafter arranged for the adoption of this translation of the Civil Code of Brazil by the Comparative Law Section, it being agreed that proper insert should be made in the book. The matter of the publication of the translation was then discussed. Mr. Wheless suggested that the Thomas Law Book Company of St. Louis, Mo., or perhaps Phemister & Company, law book publishers at 42 Broadway, New York City, could be interested in the publication of this work. It was unanimously agreed that the matter of the publication of this translation of Las Siete Partidas be referred to a committee to be appointed by the Chairman, including himself and two others with power to act in the premises. The Chairman reported his appointment of a committee, composed of himself and Messrs. Shick and Wheless. Walter S. Penfield, of Washington, D. C., then read a paper on Central American Constitutions." (The paper follows these minutes, page 349.) The paper of Phanor J. Eder, of New York, on "Pan Americanism and the Bar" was then presented and ordered printed in the proceedings of the Section. (The paper follows these minutes, page 340.) The Treasurer's Report from Eugene C. Massie, Treasurer, showed the following: Jan. 30, 1919, Balance on hand from preceding year.. $925.52 Expenditures during the year as follows: Aug. 12, 1919, Jos. Wheless for subscription to Mexican publications ..... $14.00 Sept. 10, 1919, Boston Book Co. for balance of lation of Las Siete Partidas... May 25, 1920, R. P. Shick, Petty Expenses.. Leaving a balance on hand June 1, 1920.. 250.00 6.36 $109.66 The Treasurer's report was duly vouched and approved by the Section. On motion adjourned. ROBERT P. SHICK, Secretary. |