Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright CasesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - Copyright Compiled from Official gazette. Beginning with 1876, the volumes have included also decisions of United States courts, decisions of Secretary of Interior, opinions of Attorney-General, and important decisions of state courts in relation to patents, trade-marks, etc. 1869-94, not in Congressional set. |
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Page 171 - States, shall have the same effect as the same application would have if filed in this country on the date on which the application for patent for the same invention was first filed in such foreign country, if the application in this country is filed within twelve months from the earliest date on which such foreign application was filed...
Page 94 - The specification must include a written description of the invention or discovery and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using the same, and is required to be in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which the invention or discovery appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same.
Page 194 - ... d'affaires, consul, or commercial agent holding commission under the Government of the United States, or before any notary public, judge, or magistrate having an official seal and authorized to administer oaths in the foreign country in which the applicant may be, whose authority shall be proved by a certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States...
Page 662 - Rights conferred by patents are indeed very definite and extensive, but they do not give any more than other rights a universal license against positive prohibitions. The Sherman law is a limitation of rights, rights which may be pushed to evil consequences and therefore restrained.
Page 637 - And: x"That whenever an Invention described In and covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States...
Page 436 - 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 119 - ... (3) powers which he might have exercised for his own benefit, but not those which he might have exercised for some other person; ... (5) property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him...
Page 588 - Intention of the statute, or countenancing acts which are fraudulent or may prove mischievous. The public yields nothing which It has not agreed to yield; It receives all which It has contracted to receive. The full benefit of the discovery, after Its enjoyment by the discoverer for fourteen years. Is preserved; and for his exclusive enjoyment of It during that time the public faith Is pledged.
Page 608 - Now the dispute in this case does not arise under any act of congress; nor does the decision depend upon the construction of any law in relation to patents. It arises out of the contract stated in the bill; and there is no act of congress providing for or regulating contracts of this kind. The rights of the parties depend altogether upon common law and equity principles.
Page 30 - ... a registered or known trade mark owned and in use by another and appropriated to merchandise of the same descriptive properties as to be likely to cause confusion or mistake in the mind of the public or to deceive purchasers shall not be registered...