Recent Discussions on the Abolition of Patents for Inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands: Evidence, Speeches, and Papers in Its Favour

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Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 - 342 pagina's
 

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Pagina 20 - Realm, to the true and first Inventor and Inventors of such Manufactures, which others at the Time of Making such Letters Patents and Grants shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the Law, nor mischievous to the State, by raising Prices of Commodities at home, or Hurt of Trade, or generally inconvenient...
Pagina 320 - ... aforesaid, to give to the person requiring the same, or his attorney or agent, within forty-eight hours after such demand, full information in writing of the name and address of the person from whom he shall have purchased or obtained such chattel or article, and of the time when he obtained the same...
Pagina 11 - Provided also, and be it declared and enacted, That any declaration before mentioned shall not extend to any letters patents and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under, hereafter to be made, of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others, at the time of making such letters patents and grants, shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the law, nor mischievous...
Pagina 319 - Kingdom, except by or with the Consent of the Proprietor of the Copyright thereof, or his Agent authorized in Writing ; and if...
Pagina 280 - That any person or persons having discovered or invented any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter...
Pagina 280 - Perhaps the best general definition of the term "manufacture," as the subject of a patent, would be, any new combination of old materials, constituting a new result or production, in the form of a vendible article, not being machinery.
Pagina 106 - I apprehend that the principle is correctly thus expressed: the antecedent statement must be such that a person of ordinary knowledge of the subject would at once perceive, understand, and be able practically to apply the discovery without the necessity of making further experiments and gaining further information before the invention can be made useful. If something remains to be ascertained which is necessary for the useful application of the discovery, that affords sufficient room for another...
Pagina 59 - The majority of witnesses, however, decidedly affirm the existence of practical inconvenience from the multiplicity of Patents. It is clear that Patents are granted for matters which can hardly be considered as coming within the definition, in the Statute of Monopolies, of 'a new manufacture.
Pagina 319 - Act, and his assigns, shall have the sole and exclusive right of copying, engraving, reproducing, and multiplying such painting or drawing, and the design thereof, or such photograph, and the negative thereof, by any means and of any size, for the term of the natural life of such author, and seven years after his death...
Pagina 321 - There shall be kept at the hall of the stationers' company, by the officer appointed by the said company for the purposes of the act passed in the sixth year of her present majesty, intituled " An act to amend the law of copyright," a book or books, entitled "The register of proprietors of copyright in paintings, drawings, and photographs...

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