patent specification
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From 284 U.S. 52 - Permutit Co. v. Graver Corp. · 1931Most cited · 462 citing opinions
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 construct and use it after the expiration of the patent, but also to inform the public during the life of the patent of the limits of the monopoly asserted, so that it may be known which features may be safely used or manufactured without a license and which may not.