PATENT LAW REVISION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

Pursuant to S. Res. 32

ON

S. 643, S. 1253 and S. 1255

62-514

PART 1

MAY 11 AND 12, 1971

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1971

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman

SUBCOMMITTEE ON PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman

QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii

THOMAS C. BRENNAN, Chief Counsel
EDD, N. WILLIAMS, Jr., Assistant Counsel

CONTENTS

Statement of-

Page

Raymond E. Johnson, general counsel, Electronic Industries Asso-

ciation.

185

John A. McKinney, vice president, Johns-Manville Corp., on behalf

of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)__

S. W. Herwald, vice president, Engineering and Development, West-

inghouse Electric Corp-

194

197

Marvin R. Jones, manager of Research and Development, Cameron

Iron Works, Houston, Tex....

200

203

Robert W. Beart, senior vice president, Illinois Tool Works, Inc., on

behalf of the Illinois Manufacturers Association... ....

Jackson B. Browning, Vice President (Technology), Carbon Products

Division, Union Carbide Corp., on behalf of the Chamber of Com-

merce of the United States-

James T. Lynn, Under Secretary of Commerce, accompanied by

William E. Schuyler, Jr., Commissioner of Patents, and Rene D.

Tegtmeyer, Assistant Commissioner of Patents---.

206

228

Richard W. McLaren, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division,

accompanied by Bruce B. Wilson, Chief, Consumer Affairs Section,

and Richard H. Stern, Chief, Patents Unit_.

Edward J. Brenner, U.S. Commissioner of Patents (1964–69).

265

286

Alan Ward, Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Com-

mission, accompanied by Alan Ransom..

Prof. Donald Turner, Harvard Law School-

Prof. Harlan Blake, Columbia Law School__

299

308

320

Stanley M. Clark, Patent counsel, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co--

Martin Adelman, attorney, Birmingham, Michigan_-_

Austin R. Miller, president, Philadelphia Patent Law Association,

accompanied by James A. Drobile, chairman, Antitrust Subcom-

mittee of Legislative Committee of Philadelphia Patent Law Asso-

ciation.

322

336

345

Walter W. Beachboard, secretary, Smith, Kline, & French Labora-

tories..

352

Dr. Robert W. Cairns, vice president for Research, Hercules, Inc..

William P. Cole, president, Rubber Crafters, Inc. --

357

362

Dr. Chalmer G. Kirkbride, retired vice president for Research and

Engineering, Sun Oil Co....

Nathaniel R. French, president of the American Patent Law Asso-

ciation, accompanied by Thomas F. Fisher and George W. Whitney-

B. R. Pravel, chairman, National Council of Patent Law Association.