 ... 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.  Cases Decided in the United States Court of Claims - Page 63by United States. Court of Claims - 1939Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1880
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881
...in securing patents for their protection ; and if they do not, and suffer the same to be in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before they apply for a patent, they forfeit their right, and if an infringer alleges and proves that... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 764 pages
...shall also make oath that he does not know and does not believe that the invention has been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application, and that he has never abandoned the invention, then the patent or publication cited will not bar the grant... | |
 | Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania - Assaying - 1904
...application; (3) Known or used in this country prior to such invention or discovery, or (4) In public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to the application. It follows that knowledge or use of an invention in a foreign country does not affect... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1882
...same had been patented abroad prior to his invention, and that the same had been in public use and on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application. The anticipations relied upon are steam fire engines which are made by the Amoskeag Manufacturing... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885
...described in some printed publication prior to the supposed invention, or that it had been in public w O{ IZ n3} "Q [ " - 9f 3bD`ٟ}_m before the patentee applied for his patent. Corresponding proceedings may be bad in equity, the denial... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904
...and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before his invention or discovery thereof, or more than two years...his application, and not in public use or on sale in this rountry for more than two years prior to hie application, uniese the Ťame U proved to have been... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893
...proved as a defense in a suit at law or in equity on the paient that the invention "had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before" the application, or had been abandoned to the public. From the time the cable road mentioned... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888
...might prove on the trial, as a defense, among other things, that the thing patented "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," and that, if such special... | |
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