previously patented
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From 157 U.S. 1 - Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Sulzberger · 1895Most cited · 260 citing opinions
patented before the issue of the American patent, put themselves upon what is called the rule of literal, grammatical interpretation, and insist that such meaning is the necessary import of the language; and that it would therefore be to no purpose to show that such a construction.