Machinery's Reference Series, Volumes 131-140

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Industrial Press, 1914
 

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Page 16 - ... 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 16 - States and under the seal of the patent office to any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter...
Page 34 - The franchise which the patent grants consists altogether in the right to exclude every one from making, using or vending the thing patented without the permission of the patentee. This is all he obtains by the patent.
Page 16 - Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result as the first term of the quotient. Multiply the whole divisor by the first term of the quotient, and subtract the product from the dividend.
Page 45 - To add to the right of exclusive sale the authority to control all future retail sales, by a notice that such sales must be made at a fixed sum, would give a right not included in the terms of the statute, and, in our view, extend its operation, by construction, beyond its meaning, when interpreted with a view to ascertaining the legislative intent in its enactment.
Page 45 - And so it is if a man be possessed of a lease for years, or of a horse, or of any other chattel real or personal, and give or sell his *whole interest or property therein upon condition that the donee or vendee shall not alien the same, the same is void, because his whole interest and property is out of him, so as he hath no possibility of a reverter, and it is against trade and traffic and bargaining and contracting between man and man...
Page 36 - A combination is a composiMon of elements, some of which may be old and others new, or all old or all new. It is, however, the combination that is the invention, and is as much a unit in contemplation of law as a single or noncomposite instrument.
Page 46 - ... a) to prohibit or restrict the purchaser, lessee, or licensee from using any article or class of articles, whether patented or not, or any patented process, supplied or owned by any person other than the seller, lessor, or licensor or his nominees ; or...
Page 16 - ... been introduced into public use in the United States for more than two years prior to the application.
Page 33 - ... particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery.

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