DUNBAR v. MYERS


94 U.S. 187 (1876)

DUNBAR v. MYERS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

This case was argued by Mr. Charles F. Blake and Mr. Samuel J. Glassey for Dunbar, and by Mr. Frederic H. Betts for Myers.


MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

Inventions, in order that the inventors may be entitled to patents for the same, must be new and useful; and the better opinion is, that the improvement must be of such a character that it involved invention to make it, as the Patent Act confers no right to obtain a patent except to a person who has invented or discovered some new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or some new and...

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