 | United States. Supreme Court - 1917 - 780 sider
...result. This brings the patents within the principle so often declared that "a mere carrying forward of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, doing the same thing in the same way, by substantially the same means, with better results, is not... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1926 - 1122 sider
...patentable invention is a mental result. It must be new and shown to be of practical utility * * *. But a mere carrying forward or new or more extended application...results, is not such invention as will sustain a patent." The petition will be dismissed. It is so ordered. GRAHAM, Judge; HAY, Judge; DOWNEY, Judge; and CAMPBELL,... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1937 - 786 sider
...result. This brings the patents within the principle so often declared that ''a mere carrying forward of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, doing the same thing in the same way, by substantially the same means, with better results, is not... | |
 | 1885 - 550 sider
...Worrner, 20 Wall. 353. In Smith v. Nichols, 21 Wall. 212, it was held that "a mere carrying forward a new or more extended application of the original thought, a change only inform, proportions, or degree, the substitution of equivalents doing substantially the same thing... | |
 | 1875 - 722 sider
...improver, and the latter can not use the original invention without the consent of the former. But a mere carrying forward, or new or more extended application...results, is not such invention as will sustain a patent. This is so also whether what preceded was covered by a patent, or rested only in public knowledge and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 732 sider
...the improver, and the latter cannot use the original invention without the consent of the former. But a mere carrying forward or new or more extended application...results, is not such invention as will sustain a patent. These rules apply alike, whether what preceded was covered by a patent or rested only in public knowledge... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1876 - 802 sider
...ROBERTS v. RYER. 1. The doctrine announced in Smith v. Nichols, 21 Wall. 112, — that "a mere oar rying forward or new or more extended application of the...thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, doing substantially the same thing in the same way, hy substantially the same means, with better results,"... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1877 - 678 sider
...which it can be put, no matter whether he had conceived the idea of the use or not. [• Ibid. 11. The mere carrying forward. or new or more extended application, of the original thought, a vliMngc only in forms, proportions, or degree, doing substantially the saute thing in' the same. way,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1878 - 466 sider
...was exercised, notwithstanding the general principle of operation was old. It was not simply the " carrying forward or new or more extended application of the original thought," and was not "a change only in form, properties', or degree." (Smith vs. Nichols, 21 Wall., 112.) THOMAS... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - 1879 - 530 sider
...idea of the patentee without making a distinct invention. But a mere carrying forward or new or mere extended application of the original thought — a change only in form, proportions, or degree, doing substantially the same thing in the same way by substantially the same means irith belter remit*... | |
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But a mere carrying forward or new or more extended application of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions or degree, the substitution of equivalents, doing substantially the same thing in the same way by substantially the same means... 
