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WHAT TO INVENT, AND HOW TO PROTECT YOUR INVENTION.

WHAT TO INVENT.--Cheap, useful articles that will sell at sight.
Something that everyone needs, and the poorest can afford. Invent
simple things for the benefit of the masses, and your fortune is made.
Some years back a one-armed soldier amassed a fortune from a single
toy--a wooden ball attached to a rubber string. They cost scarcely
anything, yet millions were sold at a good price. A German became
enormously rich by patenting a simple wooden plug for beer barrels.
"What man has done, man may do."

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR INVENTION.--Patent it. If you do not, others will
reap the benefits that rightfully belong to you.

A PATENT IS A PROTECTION given to secure the inventor in the profits
arising from the manufacture and sale of an article of his own
creation.

TO WHOM LETTERS PATENT ARE GRANTED.--Section 4886 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States provides that: "Any person who has
invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or
composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not
known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described
in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his
invention or discovery thereof, and not in public use, or on sale for
more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved
to have been abandoned, may, upon the payment of the fees required by
law, and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor."

And section 4888 of the same Statute enacts:

Section 4888. Before any inventor or discoverer shall receive a patent
for his invention or discovery, he shall make application therefor, in
writing, to the Commissioner of Patents, and shall file in the Patent
Office a written description of the same, and of the manner and process
of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in such full,
clear, concise and exact terms, as to enable any person skilled in the
art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly
connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same; and in case
of a machine, he shall explain the principle thereof and the best mode
in which he has contemplated applying that principle, so as to
distinguish it from other inventions; and he shall particularly point
out and distinctly claim that part, improvement or combination which he
claims as his invention or discovery. The specification