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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1930
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1929] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 269 CONTRACT FOR WRIGHT STREET A N D BURRILL AVENUE SIDEWALKS (19) The Supervising Architect submits the following bids received on sidewalks for the west side of Burrill Avenue from Green Street to Springfield Avenue and along the east side of Wright Street from Green Street to Springfield Avenue: BIDS RECEIVED—JUNE 25, 1929 Bidders Bids Kent & Company, Champaign $3 530 00 King & Petry, Champaign 4 345 00 F. A. Somers Company, Inc., Urbana 4 644 99 Sowers & Corkery, Urbana 4 700 00 He recommends that the contract be awarded to King & Petry of Champaign at their bid of $4,345, this being, all things considered, the most favorable to the University. I concur in this recommendation. On motion of Mr. Simpson, this contract was awarded to King & Petry as r e c o m m e n d e d . INTERIOR DECORATING IN THE McKINLEY HOSPITAL (20) At the request of Dean T. A. Clark, I authorized the Supervising Architect to do certain renovating of painting, decorating, etc., at the McKinley Hospital, at a cost not to exceed $1,000, to be paid from his maintenance appropriation. This report w a s received for record. CANADIAN PATENTS ON DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS (21) At its meeting on June 11, the Board voted to release to the inventors and discoverers the foreign rights on the treatment of sewage and the prevention of embrittlement, with the exception of Canadian patents. N o action was taken, however, with reference to the filing of applications by the University for Canadian patents. I asked our patent attorneys, Messrs. Brown, Jackson, Boettcher, & Dienner, for information on the probable cost of taking out patents in Canada on various cases. They inform m e that applications for all foreign patents should be made before the American patent is issued, and, in order to preserve the benefit of the American filing date, should in each case be made within one year of the date of filing in the United States. They report that it is too late to make application for the Kunz cell in Canada but quote the probable cpst of filing applications in Canada on the following cases which are still pending: Hugh A. Brown Case 2, U. S. Serial No. 40725—Radio Broadcasting $127 Arthur M . Buswell Case 1, U. S. Serial No. 361602—Sewage Treatment 92 Buswell and Neave Case 1, U. S. Serial No. 361570—Sewage Treatment 92 Parr and Straub Case 1, U. S. Serial No. 366085—Prevention of Embrittlement 92 On advice of Professor White and others, I recommend that application for patents in Canada befiledby Hugh A. Brown on his Case 2 (U. S. Serial No. 40725) (Radio Broadcasting) and by Messrs. Parr and Straub on their Case 1 (U. S. Serial No. 366085) (Prevention of Embrittlement), these Canadian patents to be assigned to the University when granted; and that the Canadian patent rights on the other two cases be released to Messrs. Buswell and Neave. O n motion of D r . Noble, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted. APPROPRIATION FOR NEW BUILDINGS (22) O n request of the Supervising Architect, I recommend that the funds appropriated by the Fifty-sixth General Assembly for new buildings and other permanent improvements for the biennium 1929-31 be appropriated as follows: Medical and Dental Laboratories and Equipment (in Chicago) $1 5°° 000 Chemistry Annex 335 °°° Woman's Gymnasium 300 000
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