Patents: Hearings Before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on General Revision of Patent Laws. January 25, 26, 27, and 28, February 16, 17, 1932 |
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action amendment American Bar Association application for patent believe bill cation CHAIRMAN Chemical claims classification division Colonel MCMULLEN Commis Commissioner of Patents Commissioner ROBERTSON Committee on Patents compulsory license Congress Constitution corporations delay disclaimer District divisional applications DOOLITTLE EMERY EWING favor FENNING filed give Howson idea industry infringement interest invalid invention or discovery inventor legislation letter letters patent license litigation machine manufacturer matter mean ment missioner ROBERTSON monopoly months NEAVE opinion original parties patent applications patent attorney Patent Bar patent issued Patent Law Association patent lawyers Patent Office patent section patent system pending period person practice present prior art proposed protection question reason record reduction to practice reissue require Revised Statutes ROBERT WATSON scientific SHOEMAKER SIROVICH suggested suit Supreme Court thing tion to-day TOWNSEND valid Washington WATSON WILLITTS
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Page 217 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof...
Page 305 - ... to receive a patent for his invention, as specified in his claim, or for any part thereof, as the facts in the case may appear. And such adjudication, if it be in favor of the right of the applicant, shall authorize the commissioner to issue such patent on the applicant filing in the Patent Office a copy of the adjudication and otherwise complying with the requirements of law.
Page 302 - When in any suit commenced in any district court of the United States to enforce any legal or equitable lien upon or claim to, or to remove any incumbrance or lien or cloud upon the title to real or personal property within the district where such suit is brought, one or more of the defendants therein shall not be an inhabitant of or found within the said district, or shall not voluntarily appear thereto, it shall be lawful for the court to make an order directing such absent defendant or defendants...
Page 100 - I do not want to take up the time of the committee but I am very much interested.
Page 206 - ... upon failure of the applicant to prosecute the same within two years after any action therein, of which notice shall have been given to the applicant, they shall be regarded as abandoned by the parties thereto, unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Patents that such delay was unavoidable.
Page 316 - ... 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 305 - ... and the court having cognizance thereof, on notice to adverse parties and other due proceedings had, imy adjudge that such applicant is entitled, according to law, to receive a patent for his invention, as specified in his claim, or for any part thereof, as the facts in the case may appear.
Page 317 - ... such information and references as may be useful in judging of the propriety of renewing his application, or of altering his specification to embrace only that part of the invention or discovery which is new.
Page 217 - ... not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof, or more than two year» prior to his application, and not 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 proceeding had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 316 - That no application shall be regarded as abandoned which has become the property of the Government of the United States and with respect to which the head of any department of the Government shall have certified to the Commissioner of Patents, within a period of three years, that the invention disclosed therein is Important to the armament or defense of the United States...