| Philadelphia internat. exhib, 1876 - 1876 - 960 pages
...first 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 more than two j**n before his application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public. And in notices as to... | |
| United States. War Department - 1877 - 1084 pages
...first 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...a patent, or had been abandoned to the public. And the said United States may plead the same defenses in any action brought under this act as are allowed... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1879 - 530 pages
...substantial part of the thing patented and described in the bill of complaint, and that the same has been in public use or on sale in this country for...than two years before his application for a patent. But as no notice was given to the complainant of any special matters to be proved in support of such... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 696 pages
...improvement, or that it had been patented or described in some printed publication, or that the invention had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to the application ; and the provision is, that the judgment or decree must be in favor of the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1124 pages
...therefor" — and on the fifth subdivision of section 4920, which provides for defenses, as follows: "That it had been in public use or on sale in this...for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public." The plaintiff, however, in the first place, concedes that an abandonment may be shown by the conduct... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 1956 pages
...1870, (16 U. 8. St. at Large, § 208, now § 4920 of the Revised Statutes,) is that the thing patented "had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before the patentee's application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public." No such defence is set... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 952 pages
...1870, (16 US St. at Large, § 208, now § 4920 of the Revised Statutes,) is that the thing patented "had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before the patentee's application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public." No such defence is set... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1122 pages
...Comp. St. 1901, p. 3382]) conditions the grant of a patent for an invention that it shall not have been "in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to" the application ; and the policy of this provision and its strict construction against the... | |
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