Wilson v. Rousseau
Supreme Court of the United States
This case, and the three subsequent ones, namely, .Wilson ». Turner, Simpson et al. v. Wilson, and Woodworth & Bunn v. Wilson, were’argued together, being known as the patent cases'.* Many of the points of law involved were common to them all, and those which were fully argued in the first case which came up were but incidentally touched iii the discussion of the subsequent cases..
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This case, and the three subsequent ones, namely, .Wilson ». Turner, Simpson et al. v. Wilson, and Woodworth & Bunn v. Wilson, were’argued together, being known as the patent cases'.* Many of the points of law involved were common to them all, and those which were fully argued in the first case which came up were but incidentally touched iii the discussion of the subsequent cases.. They all related to the rights which were derived under a patesit for a planing-machine, taken out by Woodworth, arid renewed and extended by his administrators. The validity of the original patent was questioned…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
The questions in this case come' before us on a certificate of division of opinion from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of-New York, involving the construction of various provisions of the act of Congress to promote the progress of useful arts, commonly called the patent act. Wé shall'examine the questions in the order in which they appear on the record-. The first is as follows : —
1. Whether the eighteenth section of the act of 1836 authorized the extension of-.a patent on the application of the executor or ad-, ministrator of a deceased, patentee.
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