 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1212 pages
...(meaning the Revised Statutes), the defendant may prove in defense that the paten:ed invention had been in public use or on sale for more than two years before the alleged inventor filed bis application for a ¡latent, and the provision in that event is,... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Harris - History - 2004 - 212 pages
...evidently within the rules. Alfred Godfrey, the inventor of a jobbing press,22 stated that his press had not been 'in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to this application'. Numerous patent assignments pre-dated their patent. When Redstone sold the rights... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Harris - History - 2004 - 212 pages
...evidently within the rules. Alfred Godfrey, the inventor of a jobbing press, 22 stated that his press had not been 'in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to this application'. Numerous patent assignments pre-dated their patent. When Redstone sold the rights... | |
 | Leonard D. DuBoff - Law - 2004 - 322 pages
...is because the patent laws provide that a patent can be obtained only when the invention in question has not been in public use or on sale for more than one year before application is made. Furthermore, use by the inventor for commercial purposes, even... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Patent laws and legislation - 2005 - 792 pages
...foreign country, before his [the inventor's or discoverer's] invention or discovery thereof, and not in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned." § 85. It is apparent that, if... | |
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... not known or used by others in this country and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof, and not in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application,... 
