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Patentee's reward

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From 243 U.S. 502 - Motion Picture Patents Company v. Universal Film Manufacturing Company · 1917Most cited · 892 citing opinions

This construction gives to the inventor the exclusive use of just what his inventive genius has discovered. It is all that the statute provides shall be given to him and it is all that he should receive, for it is the fair as well as the statutory measure of his reward for his contribution to the public stock of knowledge.