OTTAWA (CP) — The
Canadian Patent Office
(CPO) is where ideas
blossom into reality. —

There is patent number
259317 ise in 1826 for a

method of curing all ills.

using the carrot.

Patent 774931 was issued
in 1968 for a process to
recover oil from tar sands
by {exploding an atomic

Then there was the
mechanical skirt lifter
invented by a Cal ary
woman in 1890 to ralse
when crossing the muddy

streets.

While the basement
inventor has become a dyi
breed because of elaborate
government and industrial

graniedin Cansda annually.
as thaw cations are

Fr
E Submitted ted by ind duals.

Stacey Robert nf the CPO
says 200 patent examiners
work in vyernment offices
alfting through the 130
patent applications received

ily from inventors.

He said the examiners are
chemical, electrics and

who
poche a ere aitinacy of
new psa tele alcoholic
cookies: patented in 1971 to
tetrafiuorethylene, an
insulating chemical which
was later developed into the
trademark name Teflon,
used toline cooking utensils.

eentofthe adviser f

INVENTIONS GO IN
TRENDS

Mart Leesti, technical
intell tual ths rty, 's Hf

ec property, sa

the most recent trend in
inventiony is.in the area of
fuel-saving and anti-pol-
lution equipment.

“When seat: belts were
made compulsory there was
& rash seat-belt
inventions.” fe said.

“More than 100 patents"

were . granted for. new
des

The bureau, overseeing

yrights, trade marks an
indostrial designs, is part of
the ent of consumer
and corporate affairs.

That’s no lady;
that’s acop —

THE TOWNSMAN, Thureday June 14, Ws, PAGE ?

“PATENT OFFICE BUSY
_ Every invention has a price

The minimum fee for

fling a patent applic application is is

inventors use & ant agent
to file the application and
their tees run een $600
and $1,000.
“Inventors not skilled in
Preparing patent
lications will use the
services of a patent agent
because he can sort through
the se and technical
bert said.
Ae tent re cation can
run hundreds of pages on a
computer ‘with the detail
involved in an invention. .
There are
diagrams, chemical com
pounds and the fine details
of the invention to consider
when _ preparing
cation.”
LAWS OUTDATED
Astudy published in June,
nt of

1976, by departme t
consumer an corporate

affairs said that Canada's
patent laws are in serious

oi tag

‘amendments, but rea ue a.
few

ears before revisions
ore the House of

schematic fh

an.

ons, Robert said.

MONCTON, N.B: (CP) — effective. communication becoming a constable, 1. need of change. uphoistery
Two instructors at the usually has better results have only dated other police One of the most important and
Atlantic Police Academy in than pure physical force.” officers.” proposals in the report with Seamex:
Charlottetown once told She said the presence of a The “inveterate. concerns the basis for
would-be police officer uniformed omanina ten.” sh ang Branting a patent. The | Do !t Yourself and Save!.
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wanted to see the day br barroom fight often can’ ax tem would be changed to a a Steamex Carpet Cleaner
policewomen are hasa calming effect. only men vho date police- first-to-file method, where Rental machine, with sik Dow
policemen. . SEE HER ASA WOMAN women. Slace becoming a the first to file a j Gricts.gets the dirt others
Constable Roberts, now Only other policemen . coustable, Ihave only dated patent application for the | “;05 nowwa'veadded anew
one of six women among 126 @ to remember that other -offi new. invention gets the | Upholsteryattachmentandits
officers on the Moncton ake also is a woman under They are “inveterate patents. The first-to-file | own specially-formulated so-
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' “ft am not here to‘be a said. . friendships with other Robert said patent | °asy. money-saving Steamex
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men in a complimen wary of us. They almos : being .
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