WHEREAS L. FORM OF THE PATENT. has alleged that he has invented a new and useful improvement [or machine, composition of matter &c.] which he states has not been known or used before his application; has made oath that he is a citizen of the United States, [or subject of some foreign government,] that he verily believes that he is the original and first inventor or discoverer of the said improvement, and that the same hath not, to the best of his knowledge and belief, been previously known or used; has paid into the treasury of the United States the sum of dollars, and presented a petition to the commissioner of patents, signifying a desire of obtaining an exclusive property in the said improvement and praying that a patent may be granted for that purpose. These are therefore to.grant, according to law, to the said. L. his heirs, administrators, or assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the one thousand eight hundred and day of the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said improvement, a description whereof is given in the words of the said L. in the schedule hereunto annexed, and is made a part of these presents. In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the Patent Office has been hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the city of Washington, in the year of this day of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and and of the Independence of the United States of America the J. F. Secretary of State. Countersigned and Sealed with the H. L. E. Commissioner of Patents. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. ABANDONMENT, 181, 422, 423,- 427; evidence of, 407. ACTS, of congress abstract of that of 1836, 38; obsolete, 471; in ADMINISTRATORS, may take out patent, 63. AFFIDAVIT, 303; form of, 518; to petition, 405, 418; for an injunc- AGREEMENT to assign, 344. ALIENS, 69, 408. APPEAL, to examiners, 317. APPLICATION, of a principle, 101; for patent, 207. APPLICATIONS, interfering, 207, 419. ASSIGNEES, by assignment before patent taken out, 67; may apply ASSIGNMENT before taking out patent, 67. of patent, 342. AWARD, of examiners, 424. AXIOM, or abstract proposition not patentable, 109. BOUNTIES, 19. CAVEAT, 207. CENSORS, 20. CHANGE of form, 125. CITIZENSHIP, of inventor, 69, 408. COMBINATION, a subject of a patent, 115; infringement of, 420. COMPOSITIONS of matter, 113. CONFLICTING applications, 320. CONSTRUCTION, of patents, 224, 225, 226. CORPORATION may infringe, 452; injunction against, 452. COSTS, 301. COURTS, competence of, 57; jurisdiction of, 378. DECLARATION for infringement, 385; form of, 520. DEDICATION, to public, 181, 422, 423, 427; evidence of, 407. DEFENCE in an action for infringement, 392. DELAY, to take patent, 181, 422, 423, 427. DISABILITIES, to take a patent, 70. DRAWINGS, 307; are evidence, 402; reference to, 293; form of EFFECT, as a subject of a patent, 108. EQUITY, remedy in, 451. EVIDENCE, in an action for infringement, 401; by plaintiff, 401; EXAMINERS, 317; their award, 424. EXECUTORS may take out patent, 68. EXPERIMENTS, delay for, 181; to test the invention, 366. FEE, 309. FOREIGN PATENT, taken by patentee, 208. FORM, change of, 125. HEIRS, may take out patent, 68. IDENTITY of machines and processes, 372; evidence of, 411. IMPORTED INVENTIONS, 59. IMPROVEMENT, patentable, 116. INFRINGEMENT, 359; by making, 361; by using, 361; in case of INJUNCTION, 451; parties, 452; affidavit for, 454. INTERFERING APPLICATIONS, 207. INVENTION, difficulties of, 9; imported, 59, 176; sufficiency of, original, 150; suggestion of, 419. INVENTIONS simultaneous, 166. INVENTORS joint 62; sole, 62; original, 65. JOINING inventions in a patent, 210, 421. JOINT invention, 62. JUDGMENT, in an action for infringement, effect of, 424, 448. JURISDICTION, 378, 429. JURISPRUDENCE, its spirit and character, 53. JURY, province of, 429. LAW AND FACT, 429. LEGALITY of invention, 135. LEGISLATION, on patents, its motives and principles, 3; British, 23, the Netherlands, 529; of Austria, 513. LETTERS PATENT, defined, 1. See Patents. LITHOGRAPHY, invented, 16. MAKING is an infringement, 361. MANUFACTURE, a subject of a patent, 77. MATERIALS, as subjects of a patent, 113. MATTER, compositions of, 113. METHOD, patentable, 82. MINORS, 72. MODELS. 307. MONOPOLY, the best encouragement, 22. NETHERLANDS, patent laws of, 509. OATH, 302; form of, 518. ORNAMENTS, 135. PARTIES, to action, 383; to injunction, 452. PATENTS, defined, 1; not mere matter of favor, 6; divers, for the PETITION, 308; form of, 519. PLEA, in an action for infringement, 392; POSSESSION, important as to injunction, 465. PREMIUMS, as a species of encouragement to inventions, 19. PRIORITY, 150. |