Design Protection: Hearings Held Before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session. May 10, 11, 17, 1932

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932 - Copyright - 148 pages
 

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Page 48 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 68 - ... who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber-propagated plant, not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 69 - Manufacture implies a change, but every change is not manufacture, and yet every change in an article is the result of treatment, labor, and manipulation. But something more is necessary, as set forth and illustrated in Hartranft v.
Page 144 - The International Convention of Paris of March 20, 1883, for the protection of industrial property, revised at Washington on June 2, 1911 ; and the...
Page 113 - Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule...
Page 106 - Act and to any rights appearing from the register to be vested in any other person, have power absolutely to assign, grant licences...
Page 38 - ... 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 111 - design " means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process or means, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye...
Page 49 - The importation into the United States of any article bearing a false notice of copyright when there is no existing copyright thereon in the United States, or of any piratical copies of any work copyrighted in the United States, is prohibited.
Page 64 - ... in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may, upon payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.

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