Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 - Copyright
"Compiled from Official gazette. Beginning with 1876, the volumes have included also decisions of United States courts, decisions of Secretary of Interior, opinions of Attorney-General, and important decisions of state courts in relation to patents, trade-marks, etc. 1869-94, not in Congressional set." Checklist of U. S. public documents, 1789-1909, p. 530.
 

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Page 27 - ... on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or...
Page 4 - The applicant shall make oath that he does verily believe himself to be the original and first inventor or discoverer of the art. machine, manufacture, composition, or improvement for which he solicits a patent; that he does not know and does not believe that the same was ever before known or used; and shall state of what country he is a citizen.
Page 214 - It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures.
Page 234 - ... of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use...
Page 371 - Patents may be granted and issued or reissued to the assignee, of the inventor or discoverer; but the assignment must first be entered of record in the Patent Office.
Page 55 - He has no right to appropriate a sign or symbol which, from the nature of the fact it is used to signify, others may employ with equal truth, and therefore have an equal right to employ for the same purpose.
Page 269 - In the view we take of the case it will not be necessary to consider the...
Page 223 - It follows that the decree of the circuit court must be reversed, and the cause remanded, for further hearing and decree, in conformity with this opinion.
Page 438 - ... not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 271 - ... if the plaintiff makes any material false statement in connection with the property he seeks to protect, he lows, and very justly, his right to claim the assistance of a court of equity.

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