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right away started reading a carefully prepared brief setting forth why he thinks our patents are invalid and he does not infringe them. We let him go on with casual interruption. When he got through he asked us what I had to say. I answered that my answer was included in my paper presented before the Congress of which he had a copy. I told him furthermore that his arguments were not new that his arguments together with others had all been presented by my opponents before the German Patent office which had decided finally in my favor and that just
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recently my patent on the use of bases after a lengthy and energetic objection by Raschig had finally been adjudged in appeal in my favor. That of the four patents on which we were suing them only one the method of molding had been lost on contestation and then only on a technicality because my patent had been filed a few days after one of my patents was already published. Dyer said we were here in the U.S. and not in Germany to which I remarked that just the same the german patent office had the reputation of being very thorough and careful in chemical patent matters
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