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The franchise which the patent grants, consists altogether in the right to exclude every one from making, using, or vending the thing patented, without the permission of the patent

The patent grant is not of a right to the patentee to use the invention, for that he already possesses. It is a grant of the right to exclude others from using it. As the statute,

If this contract was real, and not colourable, which is the obvious meaning of the instruction, and the defendant had no other connexion with [the makers] in regard to these chains

The patent laws are authorized by that article in the Constitution which provides that Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for

The owner of a patent may assign it to another and convey (1) the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention throughout the United States; or (2) an undivided part or sha

Equity may rightly withhold its assistance from such a use of the patent by declining to entertain a suit for infringement, and should do so at least until it is made to appear tha

Control over the supply of such unpatented material is beyond the scope of the patentee's monopoly; and this limitation, inherent in the patent grant, is not dependent upon the pec

The patent monopoly does not extend beyond the invention described and explained as the statute requires; it cannot be enlarged by claims in the patent not supported by the descrip

The purpose, is, not that notice may be given of the issuance and existence of a patent, but to prevent innocent infringement; and this is accomplished in two ways—by marking the a

EXAMINERS IN. Officials in the United States patent office, whose chief duty it is to determine whether the subject-matter of applications for letters patent is such as to entitle

Letters patent granted, in England, to such barristers as the crown thinks fit to honor with that mark of distinction, whereby they are entitled to such rank and preaudience as are

The owner of a patent, who grants to another the exclusive right to make, use, or vend the invention, which does not constitute a statutory assignment, holds the title to the paten

in judgment of law it is only a continuation of the original patent; and, consequently, the rights of the patentee, except as to prior infringements, are to be ascertained by the l

It is the opinion of the court that the plaintiffs, by their own showing, are not legal assignees to maintain this action, in their own names, and that the judgment of the circuit

The exclusive right granted in every patent must be limited to the invention described in the claims of the patent, and ... it is not competent for the owner of a patent, by notice

In English law. Rolls containing the records of letters patent granted by the crown since the year 1516. The earlier of these records are deposited in the Tower, the others are in

The statute requires the patentee not only to explain the principle of his apparatus and to describe it in such terms that any person skilled in the art to which it appertains may

The language of this last proviso is so precise, and so entirely free from all ambiguity, that it is difficult for any course of reasoning to shed light upon its meaning. . . . To

An owner of a patent may not condition a license so as to tie to the use of the patent the use of other materials, processes or devices which lie outside of the monopoly of the pat

Sir Francis Bacon, in his elements of common law, is the author usually referred to on this distribution of ambiguities, into patent and latent; the former appearing on the face of

In old practice. An open writ; one not closed or sealed up. See "Close Writs." PATER (Lat.) A father; the father. In the civil law, this word sometimes included avus (grandfather).

A father.

The father is he whom the marriage ceremonies indicate. See 107 N. C. 407, 22 Am. St. Rep. 897, 10 L. R. A. 662, 12 S. E. 453.

The father of a family.

The father is he whom the marriage points out. 1 Bl. Gomm. 446; Tate v. Penne, 7 Mart (N. S. La.) 548, 553; Dig. 2, 4, 5; Broom, Max. 516.

That which belongs to the father or comes from him; as, paternal power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. See "Line."

An inheritance from one’s father.

A similar line of descent traced through the father.

The authority lawfully exercised by parents over their children. See "Father."

That which descends or comes from the father and other ascendants or collaterals pf the paternal stock. Domat, tit. 3, § 2, note 11.

Paternal property descends to paternal descendants.

The state or condition of a father,

Father of the country. See "Parens Patriae." PATERNA PATERNIS (Lat. the father's to the father's). In French law. An expression used to signify that, in a succession, the property

The term “pathogen indicator” means a substance that indicates the potential for human infectious disease.

In Medical Jurisprudence. The science or doctrine of diseases. In cases of homicides, abortions, and the like, it is of great consequence to the legal practitioner to be acquainted

Belonging to the gallows.

Hanged.

In old English law. A gallows or gibbet. Pleta, lib. 2, c. 3, § 9.

In the civil law, the passive party to a transaction. The correlative term is agens. See "Agent and Patient." PATRIA (Lat.) The country; the men of the neighborhood competent to se

The term "patient" means any individual who obtains or receives services from a health care business.

The term “patient decision aid” means an educational tool that helps patients, caregivers or authorized representatives understand and communicate their beliefs and preferences rel

For purposes of this section, the term “patient experience data” includes data that— (1) are collected by any persons (including patients, family members and caregivers of patients

I. In old English law. Sufferance; permission, v. Longa patientia, etc.

The term “patient movement” means the act or process of moving wounded, ill, injured, or other persons (including contaminated, contagious, and potentially exposed patients) to obt

The term “patient navigator” means an individual who has completed a training program approved by the Secretary to perform the duties listed in subsection (b).

The term “patient records” means any record relating to a patient, including a written document or a record recorded in a magnetic, optical, or other form of electronic medium.

The term "patient-reported outcome" means a measurement based on a report from a patient regarding the status of the patient's health condition without amendment or inter

The term “patient safety activities” means the following activities: (A) Efforts to improve patient safety and the quality of health care delivery. (B) The collection and analysis

The term “patient safety evaluation system” means the collection, management, or analysis of information for reporting to or by a patient safety organization.

The term “patient safety organization” means a private or public entity or component thereof that is listed by the Secretary pursuant to section 299b–24(d) of this title .

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “patient safety work product” means any data, reports, records, memoranda, analyses (such as root cause analyses), or written or or

The country; a jury.

A jury ought not to be harassed by labors and expenses. Jenk. Cent. 6.

A jury ought not to be vexed with labor and expense.

And of this he puts himself upon the country. The formal conclusion of & common-law plea in bar by way of traverse, The literal translation is rebained in the modern form.

Paternal power.

Paternal power ought to have its footing in piety, not in atrocity.

Paternal power should consist [or bo exercised] in affection, not in atrocity.

The chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is of several dioceses. Godb. 20.

One guilty of killing his father. See "Parricide."

In Roman law. A nonheredltary title to nobility conferred by the emperor.

The term "Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program" means the coordinated efforts among the Federal Government, State governments, and local governments to implement th

A thing which comes from the father, and, by extension, from the mother or other ancestor.

In civil law. That which is capable of being inherited. Things capable of being possessed by a single person exclusively of all others are, in the Roman or civil law, said to be in

Any kind of property; such estate as has descended in the same family; estates which have descended or been devised in a direct line from the father, and, by extension, from the mo

A godfather.

An honor cohferred on men of the first quality In the time of the English Saxon kings.

(Roman Law) Patronage; protection.

A policeman assigned to duty in patrolling a certain beat or district; also the designation of a grade or rank In the organised police force of large cities, a patrolman being gene

In Ecclesiastical Law. He who has the disposition and gift of an ecclesiastical benefice. In Roman Law. The former master of a freedman. Dig. 2. 4. 8. 1.

The right of appointing to ofiice; as, the patronage of the president of the United States, if abused, may endanger the liberties of the people. In Ecclesiastical Law. The right of

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “patronage dividend” means an amount paid to a patron by an organization to which part I of this subchapter applies— (1) on the basis of q

For purposes of this subsection, the terms “patronage earnings” and “patronage losses” means 1 earnings and losses, respectively, which are derived from business done with or for p

For purposes of this subsection, the terms “patronage earnings” and “patronage losses” means 1 earnings and losses, respectively, which are derived from business done with or for p

Patronage, which see.

To act as patron towards. The occupants of a house cannot be said to patronize it; Raymond v. People, 9 Ill. App. 344. See More v. Bennett, 48 N. Y. 472. PATRONUS (Lat.). In Roman

/. In the. Roman law. A person protector to anotlier wlio was called his cate; a patron.

AEDIFICAtio, fundus. Endowment, building, and land make a patron. Dod. Adv. 7. PATRONUS (Lat.) In Roman law. A modification of the Latin word pater, father. A denomination applied

An endowment, a building and an estate make a patron.

Lat. In Roman law. A person who stood in the relation of protector to another who was called his "client" One who advised hls client in matters of law, and advocated hls causes In

A surname. See Name .

In old New York law. The lord of a manor. PATRUELIS (Lat.) In civil law. A cousin german by the father's side; the son or daughter of a father's brother. Dig. 38. 10. 1. PATRUUS (L

The proprietors of certain manors created in New York in colonial times were so called.

A paternal first cousin.

A paternal uncle.

A grandfather's brother; granduncle.

A great-grandfather's brother.

A great-grandfather's father's brother.

For purposes of paragraph (3)(D), the term "pattern of importing or offering for import" means importing or offering for import a drug described in clause (i) or (ii) of

The term "pattern of noncompliance" means the persistent failure— (i) of a Convention country to implement and abide by provisions of the Hague Abduction Convention; (ii)

the term “pattern or practice of assault or torture” means assault or torture engaged in on at least two occasions;

I. fr. To touch; to lay the hand touch the book.

One so poor that he must be supported at the public expense. A person who, being unable to support himself or herself and his or her children, applies to the public authorities for

Lat. In Roman law. Damage or injury done by an irrational animal, without active fault on the' part of the owner, but for which the latter was bound to make compensation. Inst 4, 9

See In forma pauperis .

Money paid towards paving the streets or highways.

To pave is to cover with stones or brick or other suitable material, so as to make a level or convenient surface for horses, carriages or foot-passengers, and a sidewalk is paved w

The term “pavement preservation programs and activities” means programs and activities employing a network level, long-term strategy that enhances pavement performance by using an

A contribution or tax for paving streets or highways.

A pledge. A pledge includes, in Louisiana, a pawn and an antichresis; but sometimes pawn is used as the general!, word, including pledge and antichresis. Civ. Code La. art. 3101; H