Legal Opinion
Clark v. Bousfield
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 11, 1870PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
77 U.S. 133
19 L.Ed. 862
10 Wall. 133
CLARK
v.
BOUSFIELD.
December Term, 1869
ON certificate of division between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio, the case being this:
The Patent Act of July 4th, 1836, 'to promote the progress of the useful arts,' authorized the patenting of any 'new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter,' and gives an exclusive right to the patentee for a term of fourteen years, with a privilege of renewal for seven in certain cases, but this act did not allow a patent for mere designs.
The eleventh section of an act of March…
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