INDEX.

A.

302 & seq.

AFFIDAVIT for the repeal of a patent, proceedings on
ALIENS may obtain patents for new inventions, under cer-

tain restrictions

ALTERATION of the parts of a machine not the founda-da
tion for a patent

137

393

300

301

ASSIGNEE of a patent cannot maintain an action thereon,
in his own name, unless he possess a share in
the whole right

233 to 243

after an assignment of his interest, cannot
himself set up that his patent is void

ASSIGNMENT of a patent, mode of regulated

340

when the consideration of a promissory note,
and the patent fraudulently obtained, the
note was held void, &c.

340 to 346

CAVEAT, What, and how obtained

CIRCUIT COURT of the United States has appellate juris-

n

168

diction in a process to repeal a patent 313,314

COMBINATION of old machines, to produce a new and use-

ful result, is a discovery, for which a patent

257
408

COMPLAINT for the repeal of a patent, form of
CONCEALMENT in a specification, according to the law of the
United States, will not destroy a patent,
unless it be for the purpose of defrauding

in Great Britain, is fatal to a patent, wheth-

er it be fraudulent or inadvertent

229, 230

COPY-RIGHT, in order to maintain an action on, it is not
necessary that the whole book should be

DAMAGE presumed in case of making or using a patented
machine without license

found by jury, to be trebled by the Court,
counsel fees, and other necessary expenses, in-
cluded in.

I.

292

291

293

IMPROVEMENTS in any art, &c. patent may be sustained

. using of, when invented by another, an

offence

lae specification of should distinguish what is

53, 54

new from what is old, 145, 146, 149, 169 to 172
several, distinct in one machine, may be uni-

ted, but not several improvements in dif-

Infringement of a patent, pirating any part of an invention

is an infringement

155 to 161

carrying on a patented manufacture în a

private manner, without license, is prima

807

tag facies evidence of

e

333 & seq.

INVENTION, a patent may be sustained for in the United
States, though known and used before the ap-
plication for a patent, if not known before the
time of its supposed discovery

50

in Great Britain, if known at the time of the ap-
plication, patent cannot be sustained . 161,162
must be useful, in contradistinction to immoral
or mischievous

if it consist of a new conformation of parts,
though all the parts were previously known, it

63, 64

143, 228

INVENTOR, original, of a machine, entitled to a priority of
right, though subsequently the same machine
may have been invented by another

has a right to his invention, even before his pa-
tent is granted

47,56

55

162 to 164

cannot be sustained for a sole invention of
either of the patentees

is inconsistent with several patents for the
same invention by the same patentees

M.

MACHINE, consisting of a perfectly new conformation of
parts, though all the parts were known before,
will support a patent

MAKING a patent machine for use, with a design to use it,
is a breach of the patent right

42

43

43

228

287 to 291

MATERIALS of a patent machine, sale of by Sheriff lawful
METHOD, a new invented, patent may be maintained for
detached from all physical existence, may be the
ground of a patent

may mean the same thing with engine

296

74, 75

99, 133

127, 129

0.

OATH of inventor to a new machine prescribed

its omission does not destroy the patent

P.

PATENT is prima facie evidence of a new and useful in-

vention

cannot be for an effect only

61,325, 326

cannot be maintained for merely a new application
of an old principle

141

145

.

must not be more extensive than the invention
may be for a new combination of machines, but one
patent cannot at the same time include an exclu-
sive right in the combination, and in each of the
machines
for several improvements in a machine, and each im-
provement summed up as the invention of the
patentee, he is bound by his summary

148, 149

if for a new combination, and does not claim any
invention, except the combination, unless the
combination is violated, patentee is not entitled
to a remedy

153

158, 159, 258

162 to 166

166 to 169

mode of proceeding to obtain in the U. States
mode of proceeding to obtain in Great Britain
when an action is brought upon, if the novelty and
effect of the invention is disputed, patentee must
shew in what it consists

when void, patentee cannot enforce the performance

of a covenant for the observance of an exclusive
right under

PRINCIPLE, not alone the foundation of a patent
may mean constituent parts

R.

REPRESENTATIVES, legal, of a deceased inventor, may obtain

a patent

42, 332