Method
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The mode of operating, or the means of attaining an object. It has been questioned whether the method of making a thing can be patented. But it has been considered that a method or mode may be the subject of a patent, because when the object of two patents or effects to be produced is essentially the same, they may both be valid, if the modes of attaining the desired effect are essentially different B. & Aid. 350: 2 H. Blackst 492; 8 Term 106; 4 Burr. 2397. See Patent. METRE (Prom the Greek). A measure. See Measure. pacity, founded on the metre as a unl^
See Measubb.