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Excerpt from Inventions and Patents This volume is intended particularly for all persons interested in patents, either as inventors, investors, or manufacturers. It is intended that the layman also will find considerable matter of interest. There is a general ignorance of the points involved in patent procedure and the possibilities in patented inventions, even on the part of patentees. In fact the author believes that the patent system is misunderstood or at least incompletely understood by the very persons who are the most vitally concerned. This has resulted in an enormous waste. People have spent time and money on unpatentable ideas, patented valueless inventions, invested money in worthless patents, and have otherwise wasted time and money in ill-chosen and unwise attempts to benefit under the patent laws. On the other hand, hundreds of people neglect to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the patent statutes and fail to carry out and patent many valuable inventions. Even manufacturers have neglected to secure the benefits of patented machinery and processes in a number of cases and have failed to take advantage of the great possibilities. The modern inventor is, for the most part, neither a nonentity nor a crank, and his inventions are far from absurd or useless. In many instances he is technically trained and in most cases well educated. He makes mistakes and fails in many cases to be sure, but when everything is considered the percentage of failures from the commercial point of view is not greater than in any other commercial pursuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.