...otherwise entitled thereto will be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery, by reason of its having been first patented or caused to be patented by the inventor or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country, unless the application...

...invention at any time during the life of his German patent unless he has permitted his invention to be in public use in the United States for more than two years prior to his application, so that he has in any event two years in which to apply, while the American inventor...

...invention at any time during the life of his German patent unless he has permitted his invention to be in public use in the United States for more than two years prior to his application, so that he has 171 any event two years in which to apply, while the American inventor...

...section 4887 had been abrogated by the treaty known as " an additional act for i Sec. 4887. No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...two years prior to the application. But every patent granted for an invention, which has been previously patented in a foreign country, shall be so limited...

...debarred from receiving a patent for his inventions or discoveries by reason of its fir=; having been patented in a foreign country unless the same has...States for more than two years prior to the application therein. 4. Duration of Patent.— A patent is good for seventeen years, but now cannot be extended...

...PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS PREVIOUSLY PATENTED ABROAD. SECTION 4887. No person otherwise entitled thereto shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...having been first patented or caused to be patented by the inventor or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country, unless the applicatoin...

...act of March 3, 1903, amended this statute to read AS follows: No person otherwise entitled thereto shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...having been first patented or caused to be patented by the inventor or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country, unless the application...

...issues.8 The same principle governs in cases brought here from • "No person otherwise entitled thereto shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...patent be declared invalid by reason of its having beon first patented or caused to be patented by the inventor or his legal representatives or assigns...

...Revised Statutes, which is as follows : Sec. 4887. No person shall be debarred from receiving a patect for his invention or discovery, nor shall any patent...caused to be patented in a foreign country, unless the some has been introduced into public use in the United States for more than two years prior to the...

...Statutes, as amended March 3, 1903, which states: "Section 4887. No person otherwise entitled thereto shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...having been first patented or caused to be patented by the inventor or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country, unless the application...