 | Thomas Webster - Patent laws and legislation - 1844 - 796 pages
...proceeded on the ground of the former machines being, in truth, mere experiments, which altogether failed. The public use and exercise of an invention, means a use and exercise in public, not by the public. There are some expressions in former cases which were referred to on the trial, which rather leant... | |
 | Thomas Webster - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 1114 pages
...proceeded on the ground of the former machines being, in truth, mere experiments, which altogether failed. The public use and exercise of an invention, means a use and exercise in public, not by the public. There are some expressions in former cases which were referred to on the trial, which rather leant... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1846 - 536 pages
...gate he would be liable to an action for an infringement of the plaintiff's patent.' And Lord Abinger again said, that ' the public use and exercise of...the same as a prior public use or exercise of the invention; and if once a person has commenced the use of an art or invention, and made a profit of... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 672 pages
...Abstracted in Davis's Collection of the most important cases respecting Patents of IRT«B» lion, 429. exercise' of an invention means a use and exercise in public, not by the public." In Morgan v. Seaward, 2 M. & W. 544,f which may he cited on the other side, there was, so far as regarded... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 664 pages
...proceeded on the ground of the former machines being, in truth, mere experiments, which altogether failed. The public use and exercise of an invention means a use and exercise in public, not by the public. I have always entertained the same opinion on the subject. CAETWRIGHT v. EAMER. [AD 1800. Cited 14... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 632 pages
...proceeded on the ground of the former machines being, in truth, mere experiments which altogether failed. The public use and exercise of an invention means a use and exercise in public, not by the public. There are some expressions in former cases which were referred to on the trial, which rather leant... | |
 | Clement Higgins, George Edwardes Jones - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 660 pages
...a new trial, on the ground of misdirection. The court, however, refused even a rule nisi, and held, that " the public use and exercise of an invention,...a use and exercise in public, not by the public." To invali date a patent a prior user need not continue up to the time of taking out the patent. (9... | |
 | Patent laws and legislation - 1912 - 480 pages
...others than the inventor, as contradistinguished from the use of it by himself in his chamber. . . . The public use and exercise of an invention means a use and exercise in public not by the public." To constitute prior knowledge and use of an invention, the extent of the use and the number of persons... | |
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Jones v. Pearce, and I recollect that those cases proceeded on the ground of the former machines being, in truth, mere experiments, which altogether failed. The public use and exercise of an invention, means a use and exercise in public, not by the public. 