 | Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 696 pages
...,"to promote the progress" of "winnt/fftc/wre»," than that of ''securing for limited times'* 4'to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective"...afforded unequivocal evidence of their will and design, în relation to the subject of domestic manufactures. Manufactures had become the subject of their... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1836 - 476 pages
...the 18th of August to the 5th of September, it was determined that the only provision which should be made, was contained in the clause which at present...unequivocal evidence of their will and design, in i elation to the subject of domestic manufactures. Manufactures had become the subject of their thoughts.... | |
 | James Burch Robb - Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 774 pages
...words. The constitution gives to the legislature a power " to promote the progress of useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." In the exercise of this constitutional power, the legislature has passed an act, prescribing the mode... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 612 pages
...of indefinite duration, instead of the limited time of fourteen years. Besides, the jurisdiction " of securing, for limited times, to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective discoveries," is confided by the constitution to the general government. Can the state tribunals, then, assume the... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1918 - 476 pages
...power vested by the Constitution in Congress — to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to * * * inventors the exclusive right to their respective * * * eliscoveries. (Art. 1, sec. 8.) These provisions at once define a public purpose and the restrictions... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1905 - 980 pages
...Constitution that Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries, the acts of Congress for the past century have uniformly authorized patents for any new and useful... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 770 pages
...argument by Mr. Stevens. CASSODAT, J. The power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries is vested in Congress. Sec. 8, art. I, Const, of US They have enacted, in effect, that any person who... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 974 pages
...for respondent. CAHSOHA Y, J. The power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries, is vested in Congress. Sec. 8, art. 1, Const, of US They have enacted, in effect, Fuller & Johnson... | |
 | Albert Henry Walker - Patent laws and legislation - 1889 - 852 pages
...constitutional power of Congress : the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times, to inventors the exclusive right to their respective inventions. Inasmuch as Congress could disregard that limitation in any particular case,' the section... | |
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Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries. 
