...may be pleaded and proved as a defense in a suit at law or in equity on the paient that the invention "had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before" the application, or had been abandoned to the public. From the time the cable road mentioned was put into...

...infringement, the defendant might prove on the trial, as a defense, among other things, that the thing patented "had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before his application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public," and that, if such special matter...

...the defendant might prove on the trial, as a defense, among other things, that the Mthing patented "had been in public use or on sale in this country for more bthan two years before his application for a patent, or had been abandoned to ?the public," and that,...

...in fact the first inTentors thereof, and averred that said improvements had been in public use and on sale in this country for more than two years before the applications for patents therefor were respectively made. Upon final hearing the circuit court dismissed...

...the Court. such as would ordinarily be sufficient in a court of equity to set aside the patent, as " that it had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years," or " that it had been patented or described in some printed publication prior to his supposed invention...

...was made, and shall also make oath that he does not know and does not believe that the invention has been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application, and that he has never abandoned the invention, then the patent or publication...

...first inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or, " 5. That it had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before his application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public." The statute also requires the defendant...

...and first inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or (5) that it had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before his application for a patent, or had been abandoned to the public." The statute also requires the defendant...

...and first inventor or discoverer of any material and tabstantial part »f the thing patented ; or, 5. That it had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before his application for a patent, or bad been abandoned to the public. The statute also requires the defendant...

...delivering the opinion of the court, stated, that the answer did not set up as a defence that the invention had been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years before the application for the patent, and that there was nothing in the record to support that proposition, if...