 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1238 pages
...inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or (5) that it had been in public use or on sale in this country...patent, or had been abandoned to the public." The statute also requires the defendant in such cases to give the patentee notice with great particularity... | |
 | Albert Henry Walker - Patent laws and legislation - 1889 - 852 pages
...inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or, Fifth. That it had been in public use or on sale in this country,...for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public. And in notices as to proof of previous invention, knowledge, or use of the thing patented, the defendant... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 860 pages
...material and substantial part of the thing patented; or, fifth, that it had been in public use orón sale in this country for more than two years before...for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public." Prior to the year 1836, from the earliest enactments of patent law, certain provisions had been incorporated... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 718 pages
...inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or, "5. That it had been in public use or on sale in this country...a patent or had been abandoned to the public." The statute also requires the defendant in such cases to give the patentee notice with great particularity... | |
 | William Callyhan Robinson - Patent laws and legislation - 1890 - 952 pages
...inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; (5) That the invention had been in public use or on sale in this country...application for a patent or had been abandoned to the public.1 The relation of these states of fact to the defences already enumerated demands attention... | |
 | Roger Foster - Courts - 1892 - 812 pages
...inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or, fifth, that it had been in public use or on sale in this country...for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public. And in notices as to proof of previous invention, knowledge, or use of the thing patented, the defendant... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1132 pages
...may plead under the general issue in aciions for infringement, there is included the defense "that it had been in public use or on sale in this country...years before his application for a patent, or had been abuudoned to the public." Taking all these provisions of the patent law together, we think it was manifestly... | |
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Fifth. That it had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before his application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public. 
