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Title: Practical Pointers for Patentees

Author: Franklin Cresee

Release Date: September 20, 2007 [EBook #22683]

Language: English

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[Illustration: A GOOD PATENT, PROPERLY HANDLED, IS A STEPPING STONE TO
SUCCESS AND FORTUNE.]

PRACTICAL
POINTERS _for_ PATENTEES

CONTAINING VALUABLE INFORMATION
AND ADVICE ON THE SALE
OF PATENTS

AN ELUCIDATION OF THE BEST METHODS
EMPLOYED BY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INVENTORS
IN HANDLING THEIR INVENTIONS

_By_
F. A. CRESEE, M.E.

Revised and Corrected, with New Forms and Tables of Population
of the United States in Accordance with the 1910 Census

[Illustration]

MUNN & CO., INC.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OFFICE
361 Broadway
NEW YORK
1912

_Copyright, 1901, by the_
POTOMAC PUBLISHING COMPANY

_Copyright, 1902, by_
MUNN & COMPANY

_Copyright, 1906, by_
MUNN & COMPANY

_Copyright, 1912, by_
MUNN & CO., Inc.

New York
MACGOWAN & SLIPPER
30 Beekman Street

PREFACE

The original conception and working out of an invention is usually a
labor of love on the part of the inventor: having perfected his
invention in every detail, he finds able and skilled counsel waiting to
prepare and prosecute his application for patent before the Patent
Office Examiner. When the patent is allowed or issued, the patentee's
real work begins--that of turning the patent into money. This is the
business end of the inventor's work, which is generally to his interest
financially to undertake himself, or to have under his immediate
supervision.

The object of this little work, based upon the experience and
observation of the author and other successful inventors, is to give the
patentee such information and advice as will enable him to proceed more
intelligently, on the most successful and economical basis, to realize
from his invention.

The American Government issues annually over thirty-five thousand
patents, a large number of wh