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 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1828 - 264 pages
...that Congress should have no other power " to promote the progress" of "manufactures," than that of "securing for limited times" " to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective" " discoveries." This report was sustained by the Convention, who thereby afforded unequivocal evidence of their will... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1836 - 476 pages
...that Congress should have no other power " to promote the progress" of "manufactures," than that of "securing for limited times," "to inventors, the exclusive right to their respective" "discoveries." This report was sustained by the Convention, who thereby afforded unequivocal evidence of their will... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...the United States, by the constitution, congress is authorized to promote the progress of the useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries. Letters patent are made out by the secretary of state in the name of the United States,... | |
 | James Burch Robb - Patent laws and legislation - 1854 - 774 pages
...meaning of words. The constitution gives to the legislature a power " to promote the progress of useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to inventors,...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
...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
...the 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
...of the 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1256 pages
...repugnant to Const. US. giving to Congress the power to promote t IIP progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries. [Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. ! vol. 38, Patents, g 350.] 2. CONSTITUTIONAL... | |
 | 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
...oral 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
...& Morris, 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... | |
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