Document Type
Transcript
Publication Date
5-3-1906
Abstract
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, during the last hundred years and more the inventors of the country have been liberally dealt with by the lawmakers, and the result is to-day no country m the world stands higher in everything in the line of mechanical and industrial development than the United States does, and I think you gentlemen who have this matter of patents in charge may justly take pride in yourselves that your committee in the past has done such magnificent work for the wealth, the prosperity, and the reputation, and the ability of the United States at home and abroad. It is conceded, I think, to-day all over the world that the American inventor is the most industrious, the most ingenious, and is the most valuable part of the real wealth of the United States, and that is so because from the very start the laws have been most liberal to protect the American inventor for every bit of the right of property which he could possibly have in anything that is the creation of his brain and his genius.
– Mr. SERVEN
Recommended Citation
United States Congress, "Arguments before the Committee on Patents, May 3, 1906" (1906). Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909. 8.
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/copyrightactof1909/8

Comments
Part G
H. R. 11943
TO AMEND TITLE 60, CHAPTER 3,
OF THE REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES
RELATING TO COPYRIGHTS.
MAY 3, 1906.