 The responsibility for granting patents is placed upon a Board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General. The Board members have the power to issue a patent, "if they shall deem the invention or discovery sufficiently...  Patent Law Revision: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ... - Page 334by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights - 1974 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Israel Ward Andrews - United States - 1887 - 420 pages
...applications for patents were made to the Secretary of State, and the decision was made by a Board, consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General. In 1793 the Secretary of State alone was authorized to issue patents. In 1836 an... | |
 | Nathaniel Peter Hill - Debts, Public - 1890 - 302 pages
...date no contract is entered into for the transmission of telegrams, the bill provides that a board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Postmaster-General shall locate four trunk lines of telegraph connecting Washington with the Northeastern,... | |
 | Harvey W. Crew - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 886 pages
...authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." Under this law the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney - General, or any two of them, were, on application, to grant patents for an invention, provided they thought... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1901 - 1112 pages
...invention. The first act of Congress on this subject was passed April 10, 1790 ; and it authorized the secretary of state, the secretary of war, and the attorney general, or any two of them, to grant patents for such new inventions and discoveries as they should deem sufficiently... | |
 | George Cochrane Hazelton - Washington (D.C.) - 1902 - 360 pages
...improving the Hall, so far as to render it better suited to the purposes of a deliberative assembly : That the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General, be requested to act as a Board of Inspection, on the aforesaid contemplated improvement, during the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1905 - 736 pages
...all under the first statute. The law of 1790, laying the foundation of the patent-system, constituted a tribunal consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War and the Attorney-General of the United States, whose duty it was, according to the language of the act, "to... | |
 | Robert Marion La Follette - Inventors - 1906 - 532 pages
...examination of the prior art, as is now the case. The authority to grant patents was conferred upon the secretary of state, the secretary of war and the attorney general of the United States. It appears that Mr. Jefferson, who was at that time secretary of state, took... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1907 - 680 pages
...Members of Congress," approved April 10, 1869, I have the honor to transmit herewith the reports of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney -General, to whom, severally, the resolution was refenred' US GRANT. ExECuTrvE MANSION, Washington, DC, January... | |
 | Chicago Historical Society - Chicago (Ill.) - 1910 - 486 pages
...WEDNESDAY, 12th July, 1848.— I spent the morning as usual until 12 O'Clock in receiving company. I saw the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the attorney General on official business. I was somewhat indisposed to-day, but remained in my office & transacted business... | |
 | James Knox Polk - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1910 - 482 pages
...Catholic worship. MONDAY, 16th October, 1848.— I attended to business in my office as usual to-day. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General called on business at different hours of the day. At 2 O'Clock I received company. A number of persons... | |
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