Patenting of penicillin

Papers regarding the sharing of rewards to inventors and the patenting of penicillin, including Heatley's correspondence with his cousin Francis Hughes about Florey's claims and with R G Lloyd (a patents official?); 'Extract from Command 3829 Departmental Committee Report on Patents March 1931'; Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors 1946 terms of reference, rules of procedure and instructions to intending claimants; 'Statement of the principles governing assessment of compensation adopted by the 1919 Royal Commission on awards to inventors' issued by the Treasury Solicitor Dec 1929 and reprinted by HMSO 1946; Journal of the Patent Office Society Nov 1945, Vol XXVII, No. 11, containing an article by Francis Hughes 'Notes on the prospect confronting post-war British patent property' citing the example of penicillin patenting problems.

File also includes printed US Patents of Auguste Boidin, of Seclin, France, and Jean Effront, of Brussels, Belgium for their 'Process for treating amylaceious substances' patented 22 May 1917 and for their 'Method of producing bacterial enzyme perparations' patented 28 Jan 1930.

(See also PP/NHE/C/7)

1917-1946

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