...province. The petitioner shall state that hisr disco very or invention, dbc., is any " new or useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, not known or used before his application," or "an improvement in the principle of any machine or composition -of matter which...

...1 Damages for ¿>' с j с ft affalent right \~i ACT of February 21, 1793. (Vol. II. p. 200.) ne w and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture...matter, not known or used before the application, and shall present a petition to Ihe secretary of state, signifying a desire of obtaining an exclusive...

...p. 200.) I. SECT. I. When any person or persons being a citizen «r citizens of the United States, shall allege that he or they have invented any new...manufacture or composition of matter, not known or used befonythe application, and shall present a petition to the secretary of state, signifying a desire...

...introduced. By the 6th section it is enacted '•' that any person or persons having discovered or invented any new and useful art, machine, manufacture,...manufacture, or composition of matter, not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application...

...vending for a term not exceding 14 years anynew and useful art,machine,manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art,...of matter not known or used before the application. This right is secured by letters patent issuing from the office of the secretary of state. To obtain...

...depends, authorizes a patent to the inventor, for his invention or improvement in any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter not known or used before the application. It also gives to any inventor of an improvement in the principle of any machine, or in the process...

...that purpose. 1. SEc. i. When any person or persons, being a citizen or citizens of the United States, shall allege that he or they have invented any new...matter, not known or used before the application, and shall present a petition to the secretary of (ACT of February 2Ut, 1793.) state, signifying a desire...

...inventor." The statutes of the United States, allow a similar monopoly to the person or persons, who shall allege that he or they have invented any new...art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter," &c. These clauses may be said to be the pivots, on which turns the whole law of patents for new inventions,...

...which a patent may be obtained, are, " any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art,...matter, not known or used before the application." (Act of 1793, sec. 1.) The thing patented must be new. " Every inventor before he can receive a patent,...

...been comprised in the words, " I claim a patent for ornamenting combs by gilding." Query, is this "a new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture,...matter, not known or used before the application?" 61. For an improvement in the mode of Making Cloth by Machinery; Henry Raymond, New York, June 27....