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Pasquale ("Pat") Joseph Federico (March 25, 1902 – January 2, 1982〔"Descartes on polyhedra: a study of the De solidorum elementis", page vi, By Pasquale Joseph Federico. Edition: illustrated, Published by Springer, 1982 ISBN 0-387-90760-2, ISBN 978-0-387-90760-4〕) was a lifelong mathematician and longtime high-ranking official of the United States Patent Office. ==Biography== He was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania. About 1910 the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he gained a bachelor's degree in physics at Case Institute of Technology in 1923. He was instrumental in several major changes to how patents were issued and how intellectual property is treated.〔Most notably,in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Patent Office (as it was then known) lent Pat to the U.S. Congress to assist them in preparing a codification of the patent laws that became the 1952 Patent Act (Title 35 of the U.S. Code). He was largely instrumental in the preparation of the House Report on the bill. As an Examiner-in-Chief and member of the appellate board, he prepared many administrative opinions on patents and trademarks. One of his most notable opinions for the Patent Office allowed, over the objection that it was "scandalous," a trademark registration on the term "$50,000 Treasure Chest" describing the 39½-inch bosom of Evelyn West, "a burlesque legend of the forties, fifties, and sixties" according to the Wikipedia article on her. (The subject of this trademark is illustrated in the Wikipedia article.) The Patent Office recognized that the trademark was not deceptive (which would preclude trademark registration) because Lloyd's of London insured West's breasts for $50,000. See Obituary, St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 13, 2005.〕 Federico also served for many years as the Patent Office's unofficial historian and editor of the "Journal of the Patent Office Society""(JPOS). Some of his most well known contributions to the field of mathematics focused on the study of perfect squares〔See "Compound Perfect Squares", By A.J.W. Duijvestijn, P.J. Federico, and P. Leeuw, published in American Mathematical Monthly Volume 89 (1982) pp 15-32; P.J. Federico, ''Note on some low-order perfect squared squares'', Canad. J. Math., 15. pp 350-363 (1963).〕 and the writings of Descartes.〔See, e.g., "Descartes on polyhedra: a study of the De solidorum elementis," by Pasquale Joseph Federico. Edition: illustrated, Published by Springer, 1982 ISBN 0-387-90760-2, ISBN 978-0-387-90760-4.〕 Federico is credited for providing the quotation said to underlie the scope of patentable subject matter under United States law when he testified before a House subcommittee in 1951 that "under section 101 a person may have invented a machine or manufacture, which may include anything under the sun that is made by man,"〔The phrase is based on language in the Book of Ecclesiastes, 1:2-9, 14.〕 ''so long as it satisfies the requirements of the patent statute''. This testimony was later quoted by the United States Supreme Court when the Court held in 1980 that living organisms were proper subject matter for patents. The language is often misunderstood, however, because there are many things men make under the sun that cannot be patented: "Laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas," for example, cannot be patented.〔''Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International'', 134 S. Ct. 2347, 2354 (2014). Nor can jokes or songs or electrical signals. ''In re Nuijten'', 500 F.3d 1346 (Fed. Cir. 2007)〕 Judge Giles S. Rich of the Federal Circuit made these eulogistic remarks about Federico in a JPOS article〔G.S. Rich, (''P.J. (Pat) Federico and His Works''," 64 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 3 (Jan. 1982) ).〕 published shortly after Pat's death:
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