...fees required by law, and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor. SKC. 4887. No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...reason of its having been first patented or caused to bo patented in a foreign country, unless the same half been introduced into public use in the United...

...different sections of the law itself. In section 4887 of the present patent law it is said: "No person shall be debarred, from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery." We have there the fundamental command of said law, and after the clear and unmistakable meaning of...

...under S 4887 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which provides as follows : " No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...reason of its having been first patented or caused to bt pattnttd in a foreign country, unless the same has been introduced into public use in the United...

...Revised Statutes so that it shall read as follows : :' SEC. 4887. No person otherwise entitled thereto shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his...shall any patent be declared invalid, by reason of its baving been first patented or caused to be patented by the inventor or his legal representatives or...

...States for more than two years prior to his application, should not be debarred from receiving a patent by reason of its having been first patented or caused to be patented in a foreign country — these words not being qualified as in the act of 1839 by any reference to the date of the application....

...be patented in a foreign country ; provided, the same shall not have been introduced into public.use in the United States for more than two years prior to the application, and that Opinion of the Court. lication of the foreign one, at the same time the patent shall expire...

...limited to seventeen years from the date or pubAs reported by the Committee on Patents. § 25. No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery by reason of his having flrst patented it in a foreign country ; provided, the same shall not have...

...invalid under our statutes because of any prior patent obtained abroad, provided the same shall not have been introduced into public use in the United States for more than two years prior to the application ; though there are certain requirements, besides, as to the expiration of the term of the patent thus...

...date or publication of the foreign patent. As reported by the Committee on Patents. SEC. 25. No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery by reason of his having first patented it in a foreign country; proriiled, the same shall not have...

...interpreting that section of the United States Revised Statutes which reads as follows: 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...