| Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 716 pages
...which the plaintiff has disclosed by this instrument. It is very difficult to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this...after full consideration, we think that the plaintiff (loes not merely claim a principle, but a machine embodying a principle, and a very raluable one. We... | |
| Salmon Portland Chase - Telegraph - 1853 - 54 pages
...described and embodied process. " It is very difficult," said the Court, " to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this...principle, and a very valuable one. We think the CASE MLTST BE CONSIDERED AS IF, THE PRINCIPLE BEING WELL KNOWN, the plaintiff had first invented a mode... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 718 pages
...It is very difficult to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and that, at first, created, in the minds of some of the court,...machine embodying a principle, and a very valuable one too. We think the case must be considered as if, the principle being well known, the plaintiff had... | |
| Telegraph - 1854 - 750 pages
...who delivered the opinion of the Court, said : — " It is very difficult to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this at first created in the minds of the Court much difficulty ; but after full consideration, we think that the plaintiff does not merely... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 600 pages
...Parke, who delivered the opinion of the court, said : " It is very difficult to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this at first created in the minds of the court much difficulty ; but after full consideration we think that the plaintiff does not merely... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Patent laws and legislation - 1867 - 684 pages
...the specification, he said : " It is very difficult to distinguish it [the specification] from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this...considered as if the principle being well known [the principle of blowing furnaces with hot air], the plaintiff had first invented a mode of applying it... | |
| Law - 1868 - 894 pages
...is which the plaintiff has disclosed by this instrument. It is very difficult to distinguish it from a patent for a principle, and this at first created...difficulty ; but, after full consideration, we think the plaintiff does not merely claim a principle, but a machine embodying a principle, and a very valuable... | |
| Law - 1872 - 536 pages
...the court, said : " It is very diflicult to distinguish it (the patentee's specification) from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this,...if, the principle being well known, the plaintiff hod first invented a mode of applying it, by a mechanical apparatus, to furnaces ; and his invention... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - Inventors - 1875 - 876 pages
...who delivered the opinion of the court, said : " ' It is verv difficult to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this at first created in the minds of the court much difficulty; but, after full consideration, we think that the jilaintiff does not merely... | |
| Charles Sidney Whitman - Copyright - 1878 - 1224 pages
...Parke, who delivered the opinion of the court, said: " It la very difficult to distinguish it from the specification of a patent for a principle, and this, at first, created in the minds of the court much difficulty; but, after full consideration, we think that the plaintiff does not merely... | |
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