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Page 51 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present...
Page 135 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof, not known or used by others in this country, before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 137 - Office a written description of the same, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same...
Page 137 - But every patent granted for an invention which has been previously patented in a foreign country shall be so limited as to expire at the same time with the foreign patent...
Page 140 - They must be so placed in the close and complex parts of drawings as not to interfere with a thorough comprehension of the same, and therefore should rarely cross or mingle with the lines. When necessarily grouped around a certain part they should be placed at a little distance, where there is available space, and connected by lines with the parts to which they refer.
Page 135 - ... any person who, by his own industry, genius, efforts, and expense, has invented and produced any new and original design for a manufacture, bust, statue, alto-relievo, or bas-relief; any new and original design...
Page 137 - ... and is required to be in such full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art...
Page 144 - Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. The applicant, patentee, or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his application for patent, or patents, to the whole or any specified part of the United States.
Page 141 - ... one view of the drawing, it must always be represented by the same character, and the same character must never be used to designate different parts.
Page 151 - Entered according to act of Congress, in the year , by , in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington," or, at the option of the person entering the copyright, the words: "Copyright, 18 — , by ." The law imposes a penalty of $100 upon any person who has not obtained copyright who shall insert the notice "Entered according to Act of Congress," or "Copyright," etc., or words of the same import, in or upon any book or other article.