Specification
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 52 U.S. 587 - Hogg v. Emerson · 1850Most cited · 95 citing opinions
part of patent
The letters in this case were taken out in 1834, under the act of 1793, and the law did not then require the patentee or the commissioner to make the specification a part of the letters patent, as it does by the act of 1836. But the inventor still had a right, if he pleased, for greater fulness and clearness, not only to file a specification as such, and as the law directed, but to advise the Patent-Office also to incorporate it into the letters as a part of them by express terms of reference.
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