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24 THE CALGARY HERALD Fit, Oct. 22, 1976 Inventors choking on paten pill MORLEY MAN FACES HIT-AND-RUN CHARGE A 19-year-old Morley night. scene of an accident. He a pedestrian, was struck by man faces a hit-and-run Cochrane RCMP said was released to appear in a vehicle and killed about charge in connection with Oral Trayven Wildman was Cochrane provincial court 11:30 p.m. on the Morley the highway death of a 75- charged Wednesday with Nov.

12. overpass above Highway 1, year-old man Tuesday failing to remain at the Alex Baptiste of Morley, police said. CHOOSE FROM A GOOD SELECTION OF 1976 CIIEVETTES the value car "You don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, which is what they're trying to do," he' said. One of the things the institute objects to is-a proposal to do away with a two-year grace period which gives an inventor time to see if his product is marketable before shelling out $1,000 or more for patents. Another is the reduction of the term of the patent from 17 to nine years, with an optional five-year extension if the product is being used or produced in Cana-' da.

According to Mr. Ade, in many cases nine years just isn't long enough to give the inventor time to file his patent and get his invention into production. A third problem is the proposal to have the amended laws in force for ten years only, at which time Canada would be ed for the federal consumer and corporate affairs department, took four years to prepare, but interested parties were given only four months to study and react to them, Mr. Ade said. In spite of time limitations, he said, the institute has submitted an 80-page brief criticizing the proposals as "impractical," and based on "false premises" and "faulty reasoning." "They start off with the premise that monopolies are patents are monopolies, therefore patents are bad," he said.

The error lies in the fact that a patent is not a classical monopoly, it's protection of new ideas that without protection won't be developed, he said. Although some of the 37 proposed changes are good, others will hurt independent inventors so badly they'll quit, Mr. Ade said. without patent laws altogether unless Parliament extended them. "Knowing this ten-year thing is hanging over us is going to kill incentive," Mr.

Ade' said. An "exhaustion clause" would deprive an inventor who manufactures and sells his product out of Canada of his patent, he said. "They're trying to restrict you to manufacturing in Canada," Mr. Ade said. Mr.

Ade blamed the department of consumer and corporate affairs for the way in which the proposals were produced. The brief, he said, was worked on mainly by economists who "didn't involve the other side." "The entire thrust of this working paper is that patents are bad, and they're doing their damndest to get rid of them," he said. PRICED FROM $3582 Stock No. 886813 The creative genius of Canada's inventors will be stifled if proposed changes to patent laws are enacted, says a member of the Patent and Trade Mark Institute of Canada. And it may send them to the United States with their inventions, he said.

Speaking to the Copyright, Inventors and Patent Association of Canada in Calgary this week. Stan Ade, a patent agent from Winnipeg said, "They seem to feel that you and others are going to invent for the sheer joy of it. "I think anyone who vents does so for one purpose to make money," he said. The proposals, develop Man dead of unknown causes A 28-year-old Standoff man. died Wednesday in Calgary General Hospital of an as yet unknown cause.

The man was found about 10 a.m. in an outhouse in Standoff, on the Blood Indian Reserve, with a cut to his forehead and a low body temperature. Pf- 'Vsr1 Personal 1 I 16 avE I He was taken to Cards-ton Municipal Hospital for treatment to the cut and then rushed to Calgary General Hospital, where he died about 5: IS p.m. RCMP say he had apparently been in the outhouse for sometime. Returns, One of a Kinds, Discontinued Lines Some Damaged wL Shop Tonight 'til 9 p.m.

Hurry in as quantities are limited Safeway robbery nets $250 A gunman took about $250 Wednesday night in a holdup at the Canada Safeway store at 9919 Fairm-ount Drive S.E. Police said the robber appeared to want to cash a cheque at the windowof the store office about 8:10 p.m., but the piece of paper he presented turned out to be a printed note demanding money and warning he had a gun. The man also showe2 the woman clerk a handgun stuck under his belt. He walked out the northeast door and disappeared after the clerk handed over the money. Police said the bandit wore a cowboy hat and cowboy boots.

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