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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14153, 12 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

DO PATENTS PAY?

It would be almost idle to quote th 9 enormous profits derived from patents. The following are a few examples of profitable patents. The Westingliouse air brake made millions: Mr J. L. Easley's conical lass lemon squeezer sold enormously, and bis royalties were extremely heavy. An inventor obtained a patent for printer's ink, and lie refused £50,000, and finally sold it for £60.000. A slight improvement in straw cutters realised forty thousand dollars. Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, derived £IOO,OOO per annum from it. The men who thought of putting metal plates on the soles of boots, and copper tips to children's shoes, each gamed for liimself a competency. The patentees of the styloEraphic pen reioiced in an income of £40.000. Indeed the field is so vast, and the number of profitable patents so great, rhat it would perhaps be a far easier ta>|.- to undertake a recapitulation of what kind of patents do not pay. If you wish to obtain n latent write to Henry Huprhes (A. R. Holdship), Cliristchurch, the oldest established patent agency in the 'oiony. The Timaru Agent is Mr J. E. S. Jackson...

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