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AT the recent meeting in Blackpool of the British Association, the president of Section G (Engineering), Prof. W. Cramp, gave an address on “The Engineer and the Nation” in which he referred to the difficulties in the way of an inventor who patents his invention and attempts to create a new industry. As an illustration of these difficulties, Prof. Cramp mentioned a patent action within his own experience which cost £30,000, more than half of which was spent in obtaining a judgment (reversed on appeal) from a judge who, he stated, admitted that “he could hardly understand a word about it”. On this state of affairs Prof. Cramp expressed the opinion that “there is no hope for the Patentee in this country under such a clumsy ineffective system; but to change it will be difficult. It will be necessary to break through the resistance of a thoroughly case-hardened Bar, and engineers know what that means. I believe that this Association is the only body with the necessary prestige and influence to produce the desired effect. I hope that this Section will urge the Council to take steps to bring about a reform that is so long overdue.”
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High Court Procedure and the Cost of Patent Actions. Nature 138, 737–738 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138737a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138737a0