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Page 448 - Office to any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, 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...
Page 32 - A word or words having no direct reference to the character or quality of the goods, and not being according to its ordinary signification a geographical name or a surname; 5.
Page 465 - Whenever, through inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, a patentee has claimed more than that of which he was the original or first inventor or discoverer, his patent shall be valid for all that part which is truly and justly his own...
Page 469 - That no mark which consists merely in the name of an individual, firm, corporation, or association, not written, printed, impressed, or woven in some particular or distinctive manner...
Page 30 - It shall be the duty of all patentees, and their assigns and legal representatives, and of all persons making or vending any patented article for or under them, to give sufficient notice to the public that the same is patented; either by fixing thereon the word "patent...
Page 261 - ... that the complete specification describes or claims an invention other than that described in the provisional specification, and that such other invention forms the subject of an application made by the opponent in the interval between the leaving of the provisional specification and the leaving of the complete specification,] but on no other ground.
Page 462 - Motions to dissolve an interference may be brought on the ground (1) that no interference in fact exists, (2) that there has been such irregularity in declaring the same as will preclude a proper determination of the interference, or (3) that an applicant's mark is not registrable.
Page 448 - The executor or administrator duly authorized under the law of any foreign country to administer upon the estate of the deceased inventor shall, in case the said inventor was not domiciled in the United States at the time of his death, have the right to apply for and obtain the patent. The authority of such foreign executor or administrator shall be proved by certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States.
Page 261 - The reasonable requirements of the public with respect to the invention cannot be supplied ; or (c.) Any person is prevented from working or using to the best advantage an invention of which he is possessed, the...
Page 474 - ... :If it appear after a hearing before the examiner that the registrant was not entitled to the use of the mark at the date of his application for registration thereof, or that the mark is not used by the registrant, or has been abandoned, and the examiner shall so decide, the Commissioner shall cancel the registration. Appeal may be taken to the Commissioner in person from the decision of examiner of interferences.