Dunbar v. Myers
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Southern District of New York. Tbe facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of tbe court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clieeord
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.. Inventions, in order that tbe inventors may be entitled to patents for tbe same, must be new and useful; and tbe better opinion is, that tbe improvement must be of sucb a character that it involved invention to make it, as tbe Patent Act confers no right to obtain a patent except to a person who has invented or discovered some new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or some new and useful improvement in one or tbe other of those described subject-matters.
Sufficient, appears to show that a patent in due form was, granted to John…
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