 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...the United States, by the constitution, congress is authorized to promote the progress of the useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries. Letters patent are made out by the secretary of state in the name of the United States, bearing tfilf... | |
 | James Burch Robb - Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 774 pages
...meaning of words. The constitution gives to the legislature a power " to promote the progress of useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." In the exercise of this constitutional power, the legislature has passed an... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1905 - 980 pages
...of the Constitution that Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries, the acts of Congress for the past century have uniformly authorized patents... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1256 pages
...repugnant to Const. US. giving to Congress the power to promote t IIP progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries. [Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. ! vol. 38, Patents, g 350.] 2. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—... | |
 | National Electric Light Association. Convention - Electric lighting - 1888 - 630 pages
...clause which provides that " Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing * * for limited times to * * * inventors the exclusive right to their * * * discoveries," they laid a foundation stone upon which an edifice has been constructed that has far surpassed anything... | |
 | Thomas B. Hall - Patent laws and legislation - 1888 - 248 pages
...Our Constitution provides, "The Congress shall have power ... To promote the progress of ... useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to . . . inventors the exclusive right to their . . . discoveries ". Under such authority, Congress has power to vest in inventors, well founded claim, as property right,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 974 pages
...& Morris, for respondent. CAHSOHA Y, J. The power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries, is vested in Congress. Sec. 8, art. 1, Const, of US They have enacted, in effect,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 770 pages
...oral argument by Mr. Stevens. CASSODAT, J. The power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries is vested in Congress. Sec. 8, art. I, Const, of US They have enacted, in effect,... | |
 | Albert Henry Walker - Patent laws and legislation - 1889 - 852 pages
...twenty-first day of June, 1788. It conferred power upon Congress to promote the progress of the useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective inventions.' In exercise of that power, Congress, on the tenth day of April, 1790, enacted... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1894 - 602 pages
...General Land Office was used. Congress shall have power ... to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to . . , inventors the exclusive right to their . . . discoveries. MOKE FORCE NEEDED. The number of applications for patent on hand and awaiting action July 1, 1890,... | |
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Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries. 
