Excerpt from Patent Pointers: Or, How to Obtain Patents Through the Scientific Agency

It may be set down as a universal rule of action with men in civilized communities, (the exceptions being very few comparatively), that when one needs some service in a calling other than his own, he seeks the aid of some person trained and skilled in the calling to which the needed service pertains. If he be sick, he calls in the best medical talent available. If his rights, either of person or property, be threatened, he seeks the aid of what he considers to be the best legal talent for their protection. And, as in these days, the wide fields of medicine and law are divided into special fields, each occupied by specialists, each of whom devotes his whole time, ability and skill to his specialty, for instance, in medicine one practitioner being devoted to diseases of the eye, another making a specialty of the nerves, another devoted entirely to the study of the lungs and so on, while in law one counsellor is renowned as an equity lawyer, another for his skill in admiralty cases, another for his success in criminal law, another for his knowledge of the laws pertaining to real estate, and still another for his skill in patent matters, and so on in the law, he not only goes to a mere professional man, but to the specialist in the general line where services are needed. Following this general rule still further, he takes his horse to the blacksmith to be shod, goes to a good shoe maker for his footwear, to the tailor for his clothes, to the miller for his flour, and so on through all the numerous wants and avocations found in civilized countries.

And especially should this rule hold good in the preparation and prosecution of applications for patents, to the whole range of matters connected with the important and delicate business of obtaining proper legal protection for inventions and protecting them in the rights so obtained.

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