Proportions, mention of, in specification, 88 per Lord Westbury, 220 of ingredients in dynamite, 276 dye, giving examples (per Romer, J.), 366 ingredients in smokeless powder, 89 in incandescent mantles, 89 Provisional Specification, form of, 550 to describe nature of invention, 55, 64, 336, 486 substitute for older title, 56, 106 to commence with title, 56, 106, 486 drawings for, if required, 56, 107, 486 Provisional Protection afforded, 490, 593 Public, rights of the, 19 Public Interest, patents granted in, I Public Knowledge. See Knowledge Public Policy requires utility, 80 Publication, none of inventions required by War Office, 117 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 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 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 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 Saccharine (Saccharine Corp., &c. v. Chemicals, &c.), 37 large sale as evidence of invention. See Evidence 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 Search, by inventor at Patent Office, 100 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 Shop, open manufacture in shop (Humpherson v. Syer), 24 Shore Groynes (Case v. Cressy), 450 Simplicity of combination, may mislead, 40, 328 Skate. See Roller Skate Skilled Workman. See Workman Smelting, equivalents in (Heath v. Unwin), 97, 200 Smokeless powder. See Explosives Specification, reasons for a, 3, 52 per Lord Halsbury, L.C., 460 origin of Provisional Specification, 54. See Provisional Specification to whom addressed, 73. See Construction 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 Specific Reference. See Disclaimer Spinning Machinery (Curtis v. Platt), 97, 231 Statute of Monopolies (sect. 6), 1, 19, 20 Steam-engine, separate condenser (Boulton v. Bull), 9, 12 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 in opposition cases, 133, 135 Subordinate Integers. See Combinations, Construction of Claims 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 for securing skate-runner, 58, 64 per James, L.J., 258 Sufficiency of Specifications, 72-79 must give full directions, 72, 73 in improvement cases (Le Blanc, J., and Lord Ellenborough, C.J.), 183 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 per Lord Cairns, 275 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 use of acid to accelerate process, 74, 75 directions for heating, 244 Sufficiency of Directions, 76 what errors will not invalidate, 77 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 in daguerreotype process, 78 proportions of ingredients in dynamite, 78 wrong drawings of slide for gas-engine, 78, 283, 288 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 |