An Advisory Panel, appointed to consider policy, procedures, and staff organization for the implementation of the patent provisions of The Atomic Energy Act, made its first report to the AEC in September, 1947. The panel consisted of Casper W. Ooms, formerly U. S. Commissioner of Patents, William H. Davis, chairman of the Department of Commerce Patent Survey Committee, John A. Dienner, former president of the American Patent Law Association, and Hector W. Holmes, Boston patent lawyer. A critical summary of the conclusions of this report has been prepared for The BULLETIN by Mr. Miller, formerly Associate General Counsel of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconstruction, which acted for the administration in securing domestic atomic energy legislation. Mr. Miller is now mid-west director of the Commission on Law and Social Action of the American Jewish Congress.