 | Albert Sidney Bolles - 1925 - 426 pages
...Between invention and discovery the patent laws draw no distinction. Again, it has been often said that the design of the patent laws is to reward those who make a substantial invention or discovery, which is an additional step in the useful arts. The law never... | |
 | 1926 - 666 pages
...or engineering skill is distinctly shown, is unjust in principle and injurious in its consequences. The design of the patent laws is to reward those who...useful arts. Such inventors are worthy of all favor. It is never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, and every shadow of... | |
 | Roger Sherman Hoar - 1926 - 250 pages
...average person skilled in that particular field, when confronted with the same situation. The purpose of the patent laws is to reward those who make some...useful arts. Such inventors are worthy of all favor. But it was never the object of the patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every... | |
 | Munn & Co. (New York, N.Y.) - 1926 - 248 pages
...average person skilled in that particular field, when confronted with the same situation. The purpose of the patent laws is to reward those who make some...useful arts. Such inventors are worthy of all favor. But it was never the object of the patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every... | |
 | J. N. Claybrook - 1927 - 224 pages
...or engineering skill, is distinctly shown, is unjust in principle and injurious in its consequences. The design of the patent laws is to reward those who...knowledge and makes a step in advance in the useful arts. Atlantic Works -'. Brady, 107 US 192, 200, 27 L,. Ed. 438; Morris v. McMillin, 112 US 244, 28 L. Ed.... | |
 | 1883 - 538 pages
...improved dredge-boat for excavating rivers, declared to be invalid for want of novelty and invention. The design of the patent laws is to reward those who...knowledge and makes a step in advance in the useful arts. It was never their object to grant a monoply for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of... | |
 | Milton Wright - 1927 - 248 pages
...or engineering skill is distinctly shown, is unjust in principle and injurious in its consequences. The design of the patent laws is to reward those who...discovery or invention which adds to our knowledge and marks a step in advance in the useful arts. It was never the object of these laws to grant a monopoly... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1931 - 660 pages
...faculties. In the case of Atlantic Works \. Brady, 107 US 192, 200, 23 OG 1330, the Supreme Court said : The design of the patent laws is to reward those who make some substantial discovery or iuvontion, which udds to our knowledge and makes a step in advance in the useful arts. Such inventors... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1951 - 246 pages
...Atlantic Works v. Brady (107 US 192, 27 L. Ed. 43S), which held "it was not the intention of the patent laws to grant ,a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea." This statement was approved in Thompson \. Boisselier (114 US 1, 29 L. Ed. 70) ; Western Electric Co.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 732 pages
...or engineering skill, is distinctly shown, is ttnjt in principle and injurious in its consequences. "The design of the patent laws is to reward those who make some *t, stantia! discovery or invention, which adds to our knowledge and makes st^i« in advance in the... | |
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It is never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. 
