Charles W. Hills

Charles W. Hills and/or Charles W. Hills, Jr. (1888-1943) was an American patent agent who worked with Alfred John Macy.

• Neither seems to be in the USPO's 1903 patent agent roster.
• In one case Jr. was a witness on one of Macy's patents, but the suffix "Jr." never appears on the diagram pages suggesting the father was the agent.
• An obituary for Jr appeared in 1943: Patent attorney Charles W. Hills, Jr., Patent lawyer (aged) 55, once Head of Armour Foundation Trustees; New York Times Sept 20, 1943.
• Thus the Jr. was born about 1888, and could have been aged 25ish, just old enough to aid with Macy's patents. At this moment it seems more realistic to suppose that the father, who might have been 45-70 at that time, was Macy's agent.
• A next step would be to examine the later patent agent rosters, which are also on the USPTO site, or recently were, so as to find the Hills.

Charles W. Hills, Jr. appears among witnesses on a patent filed by Alfred John Macy and the Macy Engineering Company on which another attorney is apparently the patent agent. There is a complex existing, both nationally and internationally, between patent agents and "witnesses", which we haven't entirely deciphered.

Patents for which Charles W. Hills was the patent agent

• Patent US-1912-1135131 (Inventors: James H. Ostrander, English title: Aeroplane flying-machine)
• Patent US-1913-1182025 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Stabilizer)
• Patent US-1913-1187439 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Stabilizer)
• Patent US-1913-1203218 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Automatic controlling and stabilizing mechanism)
• Patent US-1913-1203220 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Aerial stabilizer)
• Patent US-1916-1327055 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Stabilizer, Applicant firm: Macy Engineering Co.)
• Patent CA-1917-193102 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Stabilizer, Applicant firm: Macy Engineering Company)
• Patent US-1918-1475075 (Inventors: Alfred John Macy, English title: Landing indicator for airplanes)