GILL v. UNITED STATES

No. 85.

160 U.S. 426 (1896)

GILL v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1896.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Halbert E. Paine for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Dickinson for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

This case raises the question, which has been several times presented to this court, whether an employé paid by salary or wages, who devises an improved method of doing his work, using the property or labor of his employer to put his invention into practical form, and assenting to the use of such improvements by his employer, may, by taking out a patent

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