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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 15 January 1916, Page 14

The Comptroller of Patents and his predecessor, Sir Cornelius Dalton, have linen sitting'almost contiguously sinco the war bepnn as a tribunal to advise the Board of Trade upon the desirability of transferring German and Austrian patent rights to British subjects competent to utilise them commercially. The practice, lias been to grant licenses rather than to annul a patent and to make the protected article of preparation the subject of open competition. Since the end of August, 1914, 387 applications have been made to the Patent Office for licenses under 294 enemyowned patents; 245 licenses were .^ranted.