Strong, that the acts of Congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated " not so much utility as appearance, and that, not an abstract impression, or picture, but an aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. . . . And... Patentable Invention - Page 100by Edward Sabine Renwick - 1893 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
| District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Arthur MacArthur - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 660 pages
...United States, in Gorham Company vs. White, 14 Wall., 524, have said, in regard to design-patents, that "they contemplate not so much utility as appearance, and that not an abstract impression, but an aspect given to those objects mentioned in the arts." That was an action brought for the infringement... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1879 - 530 pages
...Manufacturing Co. v. White (14 Wall., 511,) decided under the act of 1861 , in the following words : The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of...aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. If, using language in a very broad, not to say fanciful, sense, we may properly predicate utility of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 736 pages
...indispensable to understand what constitutes identity of design, and what amounts to infringement? The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of...designs were plainly intended to give encouragement to *he decorative arts. They contemplate not so much utility as appearance, and that, not tm abstract... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1894 - 786 pages
...Strong, that the acts of Congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated — not so much utility as appearance, and that, not an abstract impression, nr picture, but an aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. * * * Aud the thing invented... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - Torts - 1896 - 468 pages
...the use of any of such other equivalents.2 With regard to patents for designs, the patent acts are intended to give encouragement to the decorative arts. They contemplate not so much practical utility as appearance. It is the appearance itself which makes the article salable, and the... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1904 - 824 pages
...mechanical utility. The Supreme Court said in Gorham Company \. White. ('2 OG, 592; 14 Wall., oil:) The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of...They contemplate not so much utility as appearance. In exparte ParMnson(GD, 1871, 251) Commissioner Leggettsaid: The law has provided for granting patents... | |
| Walter Forwood Rogers - Patent laws and legislation - 1914 - 902 pages
...Justice Strong, that the acts of congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated "not so much utility as appearance, and that, not...aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. * * * And the thing invented or produced, for which a patent is given, is that which gives a peculiar... | |
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