| Willard Phillips - Patent laws and legislation - 1837 - 586 pages
...war, and the attorney genera] of the United States, setting forth, that he, she, or they, hath, or have invented or discovered, any useful art, manufacture,...any improvement therein, not before known or used, and praying that a patent may be granted therefor, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said secretary... | |
| United States - Law - 1840 - 864 pages
...war, and the attorney general of the United Slates, setting forth, that he, she, or they, hath, or have, invented or discovered, any useful art, manufacture,...any improvement therein, not before known or used, and praying that a patent may be granted therefor, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said secretary... | |
| United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...of war, and the Attorney General of the United States, setting forth, that he, she, or they, hath or have invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture,...any improvement therein not before known or used, and praying that a patent may be granted therefor, it shall and may be lawful to aud for the said Secretary... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Patent laws and legislation - 1847 - 708 pages
...forth, Tim secretary that he, she, or they, hath or have invented or discovered any Sí ro£,amiStbe' useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device,...^'', improvement therein not before known or used, and praying if that a patent may be granted therefor , it shall and may be law- £!., ful to and for... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Patent laws and legislation - 1867 - 684 pages
...the subjects of the patent privileges to be granted were described as the invention or discovery of " any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used."4 In the next statute, the phraseology was first introduced, which has been employed ever since,... | |
| Stephen Dodd Law - Copyright - 1870 - 278 pages
...of war, and the Attorney-General of the United States, setting forth that he, she, or they, hath or have invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture,...any improvement therein not before known or used, and praying that a patent may be granted therefor, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Secretary... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...series of patent laws, commencing with the act of 1790. Under this act letters patent were granted upon "any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine or device,...any improvement therein, not before known or used," for "any term not exceeding fourteen years." The application for a patent was made to the secretary... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 832 pages
...The first patent Jaw in the United States, the act of 1790, provided for patents to Inventors of " any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device,...any improvement therein not before known or used:" Curtis on Patents (4th ed. ), 667. The act of 1793, limited the granting of patents to inventions and... | |
| Thomas B. Hall - Patent laws and legislation - 1888 - 248 pages
...inventions with corporeal chattels. a. Sec. 1 of the first patent act of 1790 recited : " any person . . . have invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, . . . and praying that a patent may be granted therefor, . . . letters patent . . . granting . . .... | |
| Albert Henry Walker - Patent laws and legislation - 1889 - 852 pages
...of War, and the Attorney-General of the United States, setting forth that he, she, or they hath or have invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture,...any improvement therein not before known or used, and praying that a patent may be granted therefor, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Secretary... | |
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