Reports and Notes of Cases on Letters Patent for Inventions [1601-1843], Volumes 1-2

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Page 31 - ... 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...
Page 138 - Feather shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed...
Page 193 - ... sole working or making of any manner of new manufacture within this realm, to the first and true inventor or inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of the making of such letters patents and grants did not use, so they be not contrary to the law, nor mischievous to the state, by raising of the prices of commodities at home, or hurt of trade, or generally inconvenient...
Page 126 - Now Know Ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Adolphe Nicole, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon...
Page 453 - Britain, with this difference betwixt the laws concerning public right, policy, and civil government, and those which concern private right, That the laws which concern publick right, policy, and civil government, may be made the same throughout the whole united kingdom, but that no alteration be made in laws which concern private right, except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.
Page 5 - A monopoly is an institution, or allowance by the king by his grant, commission, or otherwise to any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, of or for the sole buying, selling, making, working, or using of anything, whereby any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, are sought to be restrained of any freedom or liberty that they had before, or hindered in their lawful trade.
Page 407 - The declaration was in the usual form, and the defendants pleaded thereto...
Page 720 - ... in such cases the King may grant to him a monopoly patent for some reasonable time, until the subjects may learn the same, in consideration of the good that he doth bring by his invention to the Commonwealth; otherwise not.
Page 674 - the improved application of air to produce heat in fires, forges, and furnaces, where bellows or other blowing apparatus are required.
Page 501 - ... said invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled, &c., that the said letters patent, and all liberties, &c., should cease, determine, and become void.

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