Commercial Rights Research Articles

Universal Postal Union

The Executive and Liaison Committee of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) met at Berne from May 5 to 16, 1958. After the rules of procedure for the work and deliberations of the Committee had been discussed and approved, the Committee considered the tasks which had been entrusted to it by the UPU Congress. These tasks had been classified into two groups. The first group included the study of various proposals, the solutions of which might be sought by the International Bureau. The second group comprised ten problems, among which were the following: perusal of the examination of the Universal Postal Convention's general structure; determination of the methods to be followed in order to execute the accepted principle of the incorporation of the air mail provisions into the Convention in the form of a special chapter; continuation of work on the multilingual vocabulary for the international postal service; and continuation of work on universal decimal classification. The Committee decided to entrust each one of these tasks to a separate subcommittee. Thus it reconstituted the three subcommittees (air mail, multilingual vocabulary, decimal classification) which had already worked under the former Executive Committee and set up seven new subcommittees. The air mail subcommittee proposed that the Executive Committee should take action regarding an International Civil Aviation Organization request for the collaboration of UPU in the collection of the information necessary for the study which it intended to undertake concerning commercial rights in the transport of international air mail.

The Prussian Theory of the State

Since the outbreak of the Great War in the summer of 1914 the conviction has deepened that whatever may have been the conflict of interests between the nations of Europe due to their efforts to maintain or increase their political influence and territorial extent, this calamitous struggle would not have been precipitated, and certainly England and the United States would not have felt forced to become parties to it, had there not existed in Germany a controlling political philosophy which marked her off from other States and made her a menace to the rest of humanity. It is true that the proximate cause that brought Great Britain into the war was the invasion of Belgium by the German army, which jeopardized her own security from invasion; and it is equally true that it was the disregard by Germany of our own commercial rights as a neutral nation that was the immediate cause of our own declaration of war. But back of these proximate or immediate causes was a real efficient cause which impelled both Great Britain and the United States to enter the contest and to pledge to its successful prosecution their entire manhood and material resources.

PROPRIETARY MEDICINES.

PROPRIETARY MEDICINES. A proprietary medicine is a preparation that is owned or controlled by an individual or individuals. This control is held either by a copyright or trade name, or by a patent. Proprietary preparations controlled by copyright or trade names are generally mixtures, and are often secret or semi-secret in character. It is the name of the article that protects it. There is no objection to proprietary medicines per se , if we are to recognize the commercial rights of those who supply us with medicines. The commercializing of the literature relating to our materia medica, however, —which seems to be necessarily associated with proprietary interests—is against a true scientific spirit and is demoralizing, both to pharmacy and to medicine. The ideal proprietaries are those that are made so by the manufacturers attaching their own and not a fanciful name to the preparation. For instance, Squibb's ergot is a proprietary

Commercial Trusts, The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital

Commercial Trusts, The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital

Commercial Trusts, the Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital

Commercial Trusts, the Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital