American Patent System: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 92. October, 10,11, and 12, 1955 |
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Page 44 - A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains ....-: The test for obviousness was set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Graham v.
Page 265 - Findings of fact shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses.
Page 291 - The patent statutes provide for a specification separate from the patent claims, and require that the claims particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Page 265 - The court may receive expert testimony as an aid to the determination of damages or of what royalty would be reasonable under the circumstances.
Page 243 - Office passion for granting patents is an equally strong passion in this Court for striking them down so that the only patent that is valid is one which this Court has not been able to get its hands on.
Page 184 - Appeals, have remedy by civil action against the Commissioner in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia if commenced within such time after such decision, not less than sixty days, as the Commissioner appoints.
Page 143 - To provide means for the advancement and extension of technical and scientific investigation, research, and experimentation by contributing the net earnings of the corporation, over and above such sum or sums as may be reserved or retained and held as an endowment fund or working capital...
Page 143 - Second. The purposes of the proposed corporation are: (a) To receive by gift and to acquire by purchase or otherwise, inventions, patent rights and letters patent either of the United States or foreign countries, and to hold, manage, use, develop, manufacture, install, and operate the same, and to conduct commercial operations under or in connection with the development of such inventions, patent rights and letters patent and to sell, license, or otherwise dispose of the same, and to collect royalties...
Page 341 - ... added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Page 201 - Whenever the Commissioner considers it necessary to maintain the work of the Board of Appeals current, he may designate any patent examiner of the primary examiner grade or higher, having the requisite ability, to serve as examiner-in-chief for periods not exceeding six months each. An examiner so designated shall be qualified to act as a member of the Board of Appeals. Not more than one such primary examiner shall be a member of the Board of Appeals hearing an appeal.