Citizenship

Once the patent is issued, the iaventoi is referred to as the patentee. The first named iaventor, if there is more than one, is printed prominently ia the upper left-hand corner of the front page of the patent, A. AH of the iaventors or patentees ate Hsted beneath the iavention tide, B, along with the iaventors full names, addresses, and citizenship if other than the United States (3). 

Any inventor may apply for a patent regardless of age, sex, or citizenship. Once a U.S. Patent has been granted most other countries allow the inventor up to one year to submit a patent application for a foreign patent. The exception is Japan which requires nearly immediate submittal of a patent application to the Japanese patent office at nearly the same time the inventor is submitting to the U.S. Patent office. 

With the onset of World War 11, politics began to interfere with his research. Debye was actually forbidden to enter the Max Planck Institute which he directed because he refused to accept German citizenship. Despite obstruction by the German government, he left Germany by way of Italy and came to the United States. In 1940 he was appointed professor of chemistry and head of the department of chemistry at Cornell University. Six years later, he became an American citizen. During the war years his research turned toward the structure and particle size of high polymers. 

After graduating from Tomsk, he served in the Imperial Russian Navy and the French Foreign Legion. He came to the United States by way of Canada in the early 1920 s and obtained his citizenship in 1927. He enrolled at Sorbonne in 1931 and returned to this country after obtaining his doctorate... 

Rillieux, for example, had trouble filing for U.S. patents. An official who returned one of his forms wrote, It is required that the applicant shall make oath or affirmation of citizenship and as the laws of the United States do not recognize slaves as citizens, it is impossible for the negro slave to bring his application before the office. Rillieux exploded furiously, Now, I was the applicant for the patents and not the slave. I am a citizen of the United States and made oath of the facts in my affidavit.. . . How could the Commissioner arrive at such a monstrous conclusion against the express declaration to the contrary ... 

The term second class citizenship (line 47) most nearly refers to... 

The three chapters of part one sketch the history of whiteness through three periods in the American setting. The contending forces that have fashioned and refashioned whiteness in the United States across time, I argue, are capitalism (with its insatiable appetite for cheap labor) and republicanism (with its imperative of responsible citizenship). Citizenship was a racially inscribed concept at the outset of the new nation by an act of Congress, only free white immigrants could be naturalized. Yet as... 

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