A call to Institute membership to assist in patent legislation

As the Nolan Patent Office Bill (H. R. 11,984) will be brought before the Conference Committee of the House and Senate probably about the middle of December, and as the bill has been so altered by the Senate Committee as to be rendered almost worse than useless as a remedy for the present Patent Office troubles, an appeal is again made to the engineering profession to exert all possible influence towards its passage in original form, In this connection your Board of Directors at their meeting of November 12, 1920 adopted the following resolution: