 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1888 - 838 pages
...the defendant might prove on the trial, as a defence, 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... | |
 | Albert Henry Walker - Patent laws and legislation - 1889 - 852 pages
...first inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or, Fifth. 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. And in notices as to proof of previous... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 860 pages
...fense are not'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... | |
 | William Callyhan Robinson - Patent laws and legislation - 1890 - 952 pages
...inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; (5) That the invention 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.1 The relation of these states of... | |
 | William Callyhan Robinson - Patent laws and legislation - 1890 - 686 pages
...foreign patent or the publication, and averring that he does not know or 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.1 A rejection upon such references... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - History - 1891 - 738 pages
...printed publication in this or any foreign country before the applicant's discovery, and whether it has been in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application. If it has been so patented, or described, or publicly used, it is not patentable.... | |
 | Roger Foster - Courts - 1892 - 812 pages
...first inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or, fifth, 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. And in notices as to proof of previous... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 774 pages
...pleaded and proved as a defence, in a suit at law or in equity on the patent, 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... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1893 - 974 pages
...and first inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented ; or 5th. 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. And in notices as to proof of previous... | |
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... or more than two years prior to his application, and not in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years... 
