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Proportions, mention of, in specification, 88
of metals for alloy, 89

per Lord Westbury, 220

of ingredients in dynamite, 276

dye, giving examples (per Romer, J.), 366
when limiting claim, 89

ingredients in smokeless powder, 89
Lord Herschell on, 418

in incandescent mantles, 89
Romer, J., on, 391

Provisional Specification, form of, 550
origin and object of, 54, 55

to describe nature of invention, 55, 64, 336, 486
not details (per Byles, J.), 204
per Lord Cairns, L.C., 272
per Cotton, L.J., 304

substitute for older title, 56, 106

to commence with title, 56, 106, 486
should be drawn wide, 106

drawings for, if required, 56, 107, 486
for one invention only, 56, 107, 108, 498
not referred to in construing complete, 99
See also Application

Provisional Protection afforded, 490, 593

Public, rights of the, 19

Public Interest, patents granted in, I
amendments of specifications in, 103

Public Knowledge. See Knowledge

Public Policy requires utility, 80
invalidates for secret user, 21, 79

Publication, none of inventions required by War Office, 117
of anticipations. See Prior Publication

Publications of Patent Office. See Patent Office

Purification of gas. See Gas-purification

Railway Signals, useless (Easterbrook v. G. W. Ry. Co.), 83

Realm, extent of the, 1, 19, 490

Reels with hooks (Longbottom v. Shaw), 44, 332

Reference to earlier patents in Public Interest, 102, 116, 524
without disclaimer useless, 146

See also Disclaimer, Opposition to Grants

Refrigerators, equivalents in (Hocking v. Hocking), 99

Register of Patents to be kept, 493

includes those before 1883, 512

matters to be registered, 493

assignments, &c., 493, 504, 537, 593
Convention application, date of, 178, 537

fees, on certificates, 538

failure to pay, 538

grant, address of patentee, 537

alteration of address, 537, 565

notification of licence, 538

not trusts, 503

orders of Privy Council, 538

evidence of matters therein, 493, 504, 539

inspection of, 504, 538, 539

rectification of, by the Court, 504

request for entry of licence, 538, 560

request for entry of partnership, 537
Form L, 537, 559

proof of title, 537, 538

Registration cannot protect mechanical inventions, 595

Renewal of Patent. See Patent

Results, old, specification narrowly construed, 239

illustrations of no invention in, 46

See Invention, Inventive Ingenuity, Manufacture

Revocation, petition for, validity tested in, 4

connection of, with grounds of Opposition, 119

proceedings for, 494, 495

Rhodamine. See Dyes

Rival Inventor, knowledge of, not public, 24
position of, 47, 607-609

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Saccharine (Saccharine Corp., &c. v. Chemicals, &c.), 37
Saddle, connections for (Brooks v. Lamplugh), 70, 407, 410
Sale, articles deposited for (Mullins v. Hart), 24

large sale as evidence of invention. See Evidence
Samples, publication of (Hancock v. Somervell), 24

Scotland, legal procedure in, 510, 511

Screw-propellers, bearings in (Penn v. Bibby), 65

Seal of Patent Office, 101

received in evidence, 503

Sealing of Patent, 158, 489

date of, 490

under Act of 1852, 54

when usually sealed, 594

time allowed for, 158, 489, 515
refused in clearest cases only, 132
per Webster, A.G., 132, 137

Search, by inventor at Patent Office, 100
fees for copies of documents, 594
officials do not act for inventor, 594
for specifications, how made, 599

by officials, under new practice, 116, 523, 524

Secret user by patentee, 21, 79, 80

Lord Campbell, C.J., on, 218

Tennant's Case, 182

See Prior User

Selection, invention by. See Inventive Ingenuity

Sewing-machine (Foxwell v. Bostock), 225

claim too wide, 60

Sharpener for knives (Felton v. Greaves), 77

Shearing-machine, brush on (Lewis v. Marling), 76

Ship's frames (Jordan v. Moore), 243
construction of claims for, 31, 92

Shop, open manufacture in shop (Humpherson v. Syer), 24

Shore Groynes (Case v. Cressy), 450

Simplicity of combination, may mislead, 40, 328
See Inventive Ingenuity

Skate. See Roller Skate

Skilled Workman. See Workman

Smelting, equivalents in (Heath v. Unwin), 97, 200
preventing cold short (Hill v. Thompson), 183
heating of blast (Neilson v. Harford), 10, 37, 187
anthracite and hot blast (Crane v. Price), 17, 195

Smokeless powder. See Explosives

Specification, reasons for a, 3, 52

per Lord Halsbury, L.C., 460

origin of Provisional Specification, 54. See Provisional Specification
invention to be described in, 56. See Complete Specification

to whom addressed, 73. See Construction of Specifications
amendment of. See Amendment of Specifications

when printed and on sale, 594

how obtained from Patent Office, 591, 599

postal request for: Form C', 552

libraries supplied by Patent Office, 507, 600-605
foreign and Colonial at Patent Office, 101, 598
American, where may be seen, 600-605

Specific Reference. See Disclaimer

Spinning Machinery (Curtis v. Platt), 97, 231
Stamping of documents for registration, 593

Statute of Monopolies (sect. 6), 1, 19, 20

Steam-engine, separate condenser (Boulton v. Bull), 9, 12
Stencil-sheet for typewriter (Dick v. Ellam's, &c.), 46, 91, 430

Step of bicycle (Osmonds v. Balmoral, &c.), 60, 418

Stone, artificial (Owen's Patent), 75

Storage Battery. See Electricity

Subject-matter defined, 6, 102

subjects of patents, 2, 3

See various heads, Bicycle, Dyes, Electricity, &c.

must be a manufacture, 6

introduction of new mechanism is, 376

See Manufacture

must exhibit invention, 20

per Rigby, L.J., 324

See Evidence of invention, Invention, Inventive Ingenuity
considered, by Comptroller, 102

in opposition cases, 133, 135

Subordinate Integers. See Combinations, Construction of Claims
Subsequent Inventors, rights of, 47, 607-609

Subsidiary Claim, defined, 58

object of, 59

small amount of utility will support (per Bowen, L.J.), 289

Illustrations of—

for brush in shearing-machine, 58, 64, 76

for fastening hinged comb, 64

for igniting dynamite, 58, 64

per Lords Cairns, L.C., and Hatherley, 275

for magnets in a meter, 482, 484

for particular use of patented metal, 58, 64
per Lord Westbury, 221

for securing skate-runner, 58, 64

per James, L.J., 258

Sufficiency of Specifications, 72-79

must give full directions, 72, 73
reader's knowledge supposed, 73

in improvement cases (Le Blanc, J., and Lord Ellenborough, C.J.), 183
specification addressed to skilled persons, 73

to practical workman (per Parke, B.), 188

to skilled person (per Cotton and Lindley, L.JJ.), 318

amount of detail required, 73, 74

all sources of error need not be noted, 73, 76

per Cotton, L.J., 245

obvious errors do not invalidate, 73, 77

e.g. slide in gas-engine, 284 (n.), 288

in anticipating specification. See Prior Publication by documents
evidence of workman, 73

per Lord Cairns, 275
per Lindley, L.J., 299

two rules as to disclosure, 74

full disclosure necessary to validity, 74

per Lord Ellenborough, C.J., 182

public not to need experiments (per Abbott, C.J.), 186

per Cotton, L.J., 245

except for practice (per Lindley, L.J.), 319

secret user by patentee invalidates, 79

Illustrations of invalidity—

false statement as to temperature, 75, 76
equivocal specification for windlass, 75
omissions as to-

use of acid to accelerate process, 74, 75
tallow for tempering, 75

directions for heating, 244
prolongation of process, 181
materials that failed, 75
a special white lead, 75

Sufficiency of Directions, 76

what errors will not invalidate, 77
Illustrations of Insufficiency—

as to sharpening scissors, 77

air-holes in lamps, 77, 254, 257

application of preserving solution, 270

making bread and biscuits, 77

switching cells in lighting circuit, 78, 345, 349

use of enamelled vessel, 78, 407

Alleged insufficiency disproved—

use of condenser in gas apparatus, 78
term "carbon" gas, 79, 297

in daguerreotype process, 78

proportions of ingredients in dynamite, 78

wrong drawings of slide for gas-engine, 78, 283, 288
kneading filaments for glow-lamps, 79, 317

use of term "filament," 297

shades in dyeing, 79, 311

per Lord Herschell, 314

per Romer, J., 366

filling liquid-brake bowl, 79

class of substances for dye, 79, 362

per Romer, J., 364, 365

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