Manufacture
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Is used, with reference to the law of patents, to denote whatever is made by turn an labor, either directly or through the instrumentality of machinery; also, for the process by which a commodity is made. Thus, either merchandise which has been made by skill or machinery, or the process of skill or machinery by which it is made, is styled a manufacture. The expression manufactures of metals, as used in an act regulating duties, means manufactured articles in which metals form a component part, and not articles in which they have lost their form entirely, and have become the chemical ingredients of new forms. Thus white lead, nitrate of lead, oxide of zinc, and dry and orange mineral, are not manufactures of metals within the meaning of the phrase.
Meyer v. Arthur, 91 Cr.S.il Otto} 570.
Animal charcoal, or bone black, produced by burning bone, and bone dust, produced by grinding bone, are within the phrase " manufactures of bone." Various definitions of the noun manufacture, and examples of its use, stated.
Schrief Eer v. Wood, 5 Blatchf. 216.