This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...remark, that it is very strange if it is no invention that it has never been done before. Why has it never been done before? Why, because nobody else found it out, which I take to be equivalent to inventing, and I think, therefore, that his patent is sustainable." 2 Brett, LJ. (p. 121): "In all previous cases it had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...remark, that it is very strange if it is no invention that it has never been done before. Why has it never been done before? Why, because nobody else found it out, which I take to be equivalent to inventing, and I think, therefore, that his patent is sustainable." 2 Brett, LJ. (p. 121): "In all previous cases it had been taken for granted that if the thing were new and useful, there must have been invention in order to arrive at a thing that can be so described, and I should say that in 999 cases out of 1000 that must be so. I say, if the thing is new and useful, it is impossible to suppose there is not sufficient to make an invention, but I do not think, as a matter of law, that could be predicated as an absolute rule of law.3... I think this machine is invented by the plaintiff and claimed by him as a new machine combined of old parts, or apparatus, or commercial article, whichever you please to call it, is new, that it is claimed as new, and therefore it is the subject-matter of a patent" 4 Notes. This case has frequently been referred to as an example of the smallness of the amount of ingenuity necessary to support a patent (e.g. Brertrfcm v. Richardson, i R. P. C. 168), and to shew that although very little may do, still there must be ingenuity involved: Cotton, L.J., in American Wire Co, v. Thomson, 5 R. P. C. 123; Lopes, L.J., in Blakey v. 6 R. P. C. 189; Cotton, L.J., in Williams v. Nyc, 7 R. P. C. 67; and Liiidley, L.J., in Gadd v. Mayor of Mane/tester, 9 R. P. C. 524. The main feature distinguishing this pavement light from the old. onesused in ships' decks consisted in the application of the principle of internal reflection of light. In the diagram here given AB represents a section of a surface common to two media, both of which a...
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Very Good. 1903. Cloth, stout 8vo, 647 pp., illus. Ex-library with minimal markings (stamp to spine, plate to fpd) Spine sunned. Edge-wear to spine extremities and joists. Usual foxing to end papers and paste downs. Overall, very good. (Subject: History of Science. )
