Illingworth v. Atha

This suit is brought under section 4915 of the Revised Statutes of the United. States, which is as follows:

“ Whenever a patent on application is refused, either by the commissioner of patents, or by the supreme court of the District of Columbia upon appeal from the commissioner, tiie applicant may have remedy by bill in equity; and the court, having cognizance thereof, on notice to adverse parties, and other-due proceedings had, may adjudge that such applicant is entitled, according to law, to receive a patent for his invention, as specified in his claim, or for any part thereof, as the facts…