 | United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 pages
...with the defendants. In the case of Potts v. Creager, 155 US, 597, Mr. Justice Brown said : " It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not...elements produce a new and beneficial result never obtained before it is evidence of invention." A long line of cases sustain without interruption the... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1921 - 610 pages
...achieved by that cooperation marked, there is ample room for the application of the general rule — that if a new combination and arrangement of known elements produce a new rind beneficial result, never attained before, it is evidence of invention. (Webster Loom Co. v. Higgina,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...In Webster Loom Company v. Higgins, 105 US 580, 26 L. Ed. 1177, Mr. Justice Bradley says : "It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not...attained before, it is evidence of invention. * * * It may have been under their very eyes. They may almost be said to have stumbled over it, but they certainly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1122 pages
...invention seems clear. In Loom Co. v. Higgins, 105 US 591, 26 L. Ed. 1177, Justice Bradley said: "It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not...never attained before, It is evidence of Invention." The question on this branch of the case therefore is : Was Leonard or Smith, in contemplation of the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1104 pages
...Potts v. Creager, 155 US, at page 608, 15 Sup. Ct., at page 199, 39 L. Ed. 275, the court said: "It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not...never attained before, It Is evidence of Invention. As a result of the authorities upon this subject, It may be said that, If the new use be so nearly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...case Justice Bradley said: "It may be laid down as a general rule, though, perhaps, not an inviolable one, that if a new combination and arrangement of...new and beneficial result, never attained before, it 1* evidence of invention." This rule, thus cautiously stated, has been approved in later cases. The... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1088 pages
...he could have done it as well. This is often the case with inventions of the greatest merit. It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not...never attained before, it is evidence of invention." As a result of the authorities upon this subject, it may be said that, if the new use be so nearly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1266 pages
...Hlggins, 105 US 591, Is invoked. In that case it was laid down by the court, as ¡> general rule, though not an invariable one, "that if a new combination...never attained before, it is evidence of invention." But we do not consider the Hall patent as coming within the principle there laid down, for the reason... | |
 | Albert Henry Walker - Patent laws and legislation - 1889 - 852 pages
...priori attempts and failures. In The Loom Co. v. Biggins,' Justice BRADLEY remarked that : " It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not...never attained before, it is evidence of invention." The exception to his rule, which Justice BRADLEY contemplated, doubtless refers to cases the result... | |
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Now that it has succeeded, It may seem very plain to any one that he could have done It as well. , This is often the case with Inventions of the greatest merit. It may be laid down as a general rule, though perhaps not an invariable one, that. If a new... 
