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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938
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496 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [September 27 SECRETARY'S REPORT OF CONTRACTS (27) T h e Secretary presents the following report of contracts executed by the President and the Secretary of the Board and deposited with the Secretary since the last report. Name American Seating Co General Paving Co Dale June 23, 1937 August 16, 1937 Amount *i 169 54 4 503 38 Purpose Amphitheatre seating, Medical and Dental Building, Chicago. Paving portions of Green Street between Mathews and Wright Streets, Urbana. Furnishings for Medical and Dental Building, Chicago. Classroom chairs. Medical and Dental Building, Chicago. Desks, Medical and Dental Building, Chicago. Furnishings for Medical and Dental Building, Chicago. Mirrors, Medical and Dental Building, Chicago. Marshall Field and Co Heywood-Wakefield Co Horders, Inc Jane 33, 1937 June 23. '937 June 23, 1937 3 373 25 1 484 41 72 00 780 70 1 846 00 Newton and Hoit Furniture Co.. . .June 23. 1937 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co June 13, 1937 This report was received for record. PATENT OF PHOTOELECTRIC CELL (28) Dr. Jakob Kunz, Dr. Joseph T. Tykociner, and Mr. Lloyd Garner, working together, have discovered a process for the manufacture of a photoelectric cell many times more sensitive than the standard cells now in use. T h e Faculty Committee on Patents has given careful consideration to this discovery and is of the opinion that it is meritorious and definitely has prospects of having commercial value, if a patent be obtained. T h e Committee recommends that an application for a patent be authorized by the Board. As Mr. Garner, a former member of the staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering, is not in the employ of the University, he has executed an agreement to join with Messrs. Kunz and Tykociner in an application for a patent on this discovery and to assign and transfer his interest therein to the Board of Trustees of the University. T h e original copy of this agreement is hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for safekeeping. Similar assignments will be made by the other two discoverers in accordance with the Statutes of the University. O n m o t i o n of M r . M a y e r , a n a p p l i c a t i o n f o r a p a t e n t o n t h i s i n v e n tion w a s authorized. PATENT OF SPECIFICS AGAINST STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION (29) Researches conducted in the Department of Chemistry on specifics against streptococcus infection give promise of discoveries which will be important in the field of medicine. Such discoveries as have been made at this stage do not give promise of commercial value. Inasmuch as it is important to protect this field of research while further experimentation is conducted, the Faculty Committee on Patents has voted, on the recommendation of Professor Roger Adams, to recommend to the Board of Trustees that patent protection be obtained. O n m o t i o n of M r s . F r e e m a n , t h i s a p p l i c a t i o n w a s a u t h o r i z e d . STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT OF GRANT SEWER PIPE JOINT FILLER BY BERRY ASPHALT COMPANY (30) T h e University is owner of a patent for a sewer pipe joint filler discovered by Mr. Francis R. Grant while a member of the University staff and assigned by him to the Board of Trustees. In order to determine the commercial value of this patent the Berry Asphalt Company was given the exclusive right to manufacture this product without the payment of royalties but on the
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