Commons:Deletion requests/File:Drawing in 1938 patent by Aloys Van Gries.JPG

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File:Drawing in 1938 patent by Aloys Van Gries.JPG

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This file was initially tagged by Jarekt as no license. Uploader added a CC/GFDL license later. Accoring description this is a public domain patent from 1935. Do we have a valid license template for such cases? JuTa 07:49, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment I spend some time looking at this file. US and Switzerland patents from that era are in Public Domain, but German and British ones are not. My understanding is that the only hope for this file to be in PD is if Aloys Van Gries died before 1945. --Jarekt (talk) 12:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

== Patents are intended to give the public information enough, so that those skilled in the arts may build a copy of the device or method. The drawing supports that intention of the system. Upon the term of protection of the patent then the public is free to build and commercialize on the patent. The drawing is part of the give of the system. The patent has long since been placed into public domain, as the term of protection has ended. Joefaust (talk) 16:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC) Please note the instruction at http://dpma.de/english/patent/faq/index.html#a28 which denotes " are exempted from copyright protection from the time of their official publication"; then the instruction tells how to present. The uploaded drawing does have on it the patent number and the inventor's name; such meets the requirement of presentation of the drawing in any presentation. The drawing must be treated in whole, not part; so is there a better license in Wikipedia that carries the restriction that the drawing must show in its entirety or at least with the attribution: inventor and the patent number? Thanks, Joefaust (talk) 17:59, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I took off my choice of license. I am looking for the correct license; is there one that says that the image must always be accompanied by the inventor's name and the designation of the patent number? Thanks. Joefaust (talk) 22:32, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: We don't have a compatible license. Still under (c) under German law 70 years pma Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 05:00, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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