Mr. A. W. Davidson, 1st Assistant Examiner, has resigned to go with General Motors Corporation at a very attractive salary. He will be in charge of the local (Washington) branch of their patent department.

He is the six Assistant Examiner to go out from Division 10 since July 1, 1919. The Examiner in charge of this devision must have trained his men well, or suddenly become unpopular with them.

Mr. Davidson has been an Assistant Examiner since February 16, 1904, being made 1st Assistant November 16, 1915. He had two terms of service in Division 10, interrupted by nine years experience in the Classification Division. Th selection of Mr. Davidson for this important position by the General Motors people should prove a happy one, as he is both able and conscientious.

Of 2nd Assistants resigning there is a notable list. Mr. C. H. Biesterfeld, chemist in Division 6, has gone to the patent department of the U. S. Rubber Co., New York City. Entering the Office November 2, 1914, he reached the grade of 2nd Assistant, April 16, 1918. He served in Divisions 41, 15, 2 and 6.

Mr. J. C. Bright has resigned to take the position recently vacated by Mr. George Middleton with the Norton Company, Worcester, Mass. His work there will include the preparation and prosecution of applications filed in the interests of the company. Mr. Bright has been continuously in Division 22 since his appointment to the corps, July 16, 1913, and his thorough acquaintance with all Classes in this Division makes his resignation a heavy loss to Examiner Colwell.

Mr. A. R. Fuchs has resigned to go with Zabel & Mueller, Patent Attorneys, Chicago. He takes the position held by Mr. A. A. Smith, formerly in the Office, whose death took place recently. Mr. Fuchs has been continuously in Division 41 since his appointment May 23, 1914, and his loss there will be seriously felt.

Mr. E. M. Bartholow has left the Office to join the forces of Bristol and White, general law and patents, at New Haven, Conn. He was appointed Dec. 27, 1915 and reached the grade of 2nd Assistant in less than three years. He was continuously in Division 5 and handled the difficult cases in player pianos with marked ability.

Mr. Maurice Baskin has resigned from Division 43. He has announced that for the present he will engage in the building and real estate business. He became a member of the corps May 21, 1914, and was appointed 2nd Assistant October 1, 1918.

Mr. George E. Parks has become associated with the Standard Parts Co., of Cleveland, in its patent department. Since his return from military service, Mr. Parks has been in Division 4. He previously served in Divisions 36 and 14, and was appointed to the Office September 25, 1913.

Mr. A. T. St. Clair has resigned to enter the patent department of the Hartford-Fairmont Co., manufacturers of glass making machinery at Hartford, Conn., where a bright future apparently awaits him. He has been an assistant examiner only since September 2, 1915, attaining the grade of 2nd Assistant August 16, 1919. Substantially all of his Office experience was gained in Division 33.

Mr. W. C. Gerdsen has left the Interference Division to become a member of the firm of Darby & Darby, New York City.

Mr. Gerdsen was first appointed July 2, 1902, but resigned a month later to fulfill a school-teaching contract for a year previously entered into. He returned August 20, 1903, and has had valuable experience since then in Divisions 1, 6 and 37: he entered the interference division February 19, 1917, and leaves the Office equipped with a knowledge of a diversity of arts and both examining and interference practice.

Regarding the above group of 2nd assistants, it is interesting and will not be violating confidences to record that the average of the salaries accepted by those going out on a salary basis is $3333. per year. The salary within the Office including the bonus is $2340.

Mr. C. V. Johnson has resigned to become assistant chemist with the American Sugar Refining Company: he is located at the main office of the company in New York City, where an experimental laboratory is maintained. While in the Patent Office Mr. Johnson continued his scientific studies in George Washington University. He was appointed temporary 4th assistant examiner April 16, 1917; made permanent July 16 follow

ing, and promoted to 3rd assistant February 16, 1919. He served continuously in Division 38.

Mr. A. J. Fihe, another 3rd assistant examiner has removed to Chicago, entering the employ of Charles W. Hills & Son, the firm which recently acquired Mr. W. H. Whitten and Mr. E. W. Weikert. Mr. Fihe joined the examining corps April 17, 1918, and achieved the grade of 3rd assistant August 9, 1919. He served in Divisions 11 and 31.

Mr. T. L. Chisholm, 4th assistant examiner, has left the Office to engage in engineering work with the General Electric Company, at Schenectady.

Mr. E. S. Middleton, temporary 4th assistant, has reresigned to enter the office of Spear, Middleton, Donaldson and Spear, this city, of which firm his father is a member.

Both these young men gave promise of becoming of much value to the Office and their departure is regretted.

Mr. Charles C. Willson, formerly of the Patent Office, and for the last two years and a half in the office of Bristol and White, New Haven, Conn., has recently entered the office of Robert P. Hains, at Boston, Mass.

Jones, Addington, Ames and Seibold of Chicago, announce that J. Bernhard Thiess, Everett N. Curtis, Willard L. Pollard, A. T. Mecklenburger, Arthur A. Olson and Norton M. Files, associated with the firm several years, have been admitted to partnership. Also that George W. Hansen, A. Arnold Brand, William Ellis and William J. Dowd have become associated with the firm. White and Prost, of San Francisco, announce the association with them of Charles S. Evans as a member of the firm. The new firm name will be White, Prost & Evans.

Through an inadvertence credit of authorship in connection with the article on Philip Francis Thomas, eighth Commissioner of Patents, in the February number of the Journal, was omitted. The article was written by our helpful coadjutor, Primary Examiner N. J. Brumbaugh.

We regret to note the death of Mr. Frank T. Brown of the firm of Brown & Nissen, of Chicago, which occurred February 17, from heart disease. His illness began last

summer and a recent trip to Florida failed to effect an improvement in his health.

Mr. Brown, as is well known, was one of the most prominent Chicago patent attorneys. He was successively at the head of several firms and enjoyed a large Federal Court practice, extending over thirty years.

From 1877 until 1889 he was a member of the examining corps, being for five years Primary Examiner, for the most of that time in charge of Division 9. He was well known by many examiners, appearing not infrequently at the Office in the interests of important cases.

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