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..... lifetime in accordance with section 4892 of the revised statutes, and the certificate states that after his death, "the specification originally filed with said application for a patent was amended within the scope of the original oath and the invention described in said original specification, and by way of limitation of the claims, but without the filing ..... more reason for requiring a new oath from his administratrix than there would have been for requiring it from boyle himself. the attorneys who had acted for boyle continued to act under rankin's direction, and although it is not shown that their authority was conferred in writing by a power of attorney executed and filed ..... , the omission of the word "executors" prior to 1836 did not affect the title of the executors, nor did the omission of "administrators and executors" from the act of 1870 make any difference. "the law was not changed by it." taking the sections together, the legislative intent seems to have been that a grant to the .....
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..... from the town of columbus to the guadalupe bridge during a period of time when there was no law in existence authorizing the issue of land certificates and patents, and charged that the action of the commissioner of the general land office of the state in issuing and delivering the certificates, and permitting them to be ..... district court of brewster county, to recover 1,383 tracts of land, containing in the aggregate 879,078 acres, situated in various counties, and to cancel certificates and patents issued to the railway company therefor. the railway company filed a petition for the removal of the cause to the circuit court of the united states, which was ..... in the foregoing proviso shall affect any rights granted or secured by laws passed prior to the final adoption of this amendment. " page 170 u. s. 235 august 16, 1876, a general law was enacted entitled "an act to encourage the construction of railroads in texas by donations of lands," whereby it was provided that any railroad company .....
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..... involve invention. this feature was introduced into beach's claim as early as may 4, 1886, by an amendment to his specification, before the patent was issued, and hence could not have been inserted to cover the horton patent used by defendants, which never was known to the trade before 1889 or 1890. 2. the validity of ..... elements of the two preceding claims. the sixth claim includes the same clamping-dies having the diverging working faces, one of which clamping-dies is constructed to act with an elastic or yielding pressure, to enable the dies to operate upon box-corners of different thicknesses. 1. the first three claims were vigorously assailed by ..... clamping-dies having diverging working faces constructed to cooperate in pressing an adhesive stay-strip upon an interposed box-corner, one of said clamping-dies being constructed to act with an elastic or yielding pressure to enable the dies to operate upon the box-corners of different thicknesses, substantially as described. " page 180 u. s. .....
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..... allowed by r.s. 4894, for further prosecution of an application after office action. this court, in reversing the decision of the court of appeals, referred to 4886, as amended by act march 3, 1897, c. 391, 29 stat. 692, and 4887, 4897, and 4920 of the revised statutes, all of which contain provisions for a time limit of ..... by a supplemental bill filed october 25, 1918. it will thus be seen that claims 7 and 8 were for the first time presented to the patent office by an amendment to a divisional application eight years and four months after the filing of the original application, five years after the date of the original podlesak ..... in 1912. his invention was also elaborate and intricate. twenty months after this latter application, the chapmans filed a divisional application in which the claims of the wintroath patent were copied and an interference was declared. the examiner, without hearing evidence, entered judgment in favor of wintroath on the ground that the failure of the chapmans to .....
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..... of the federal and state laws already regulating the distribution of harmful drugs. see federal food, drug, and cosmetic act, 503, 52 stat. 1051, as amended, 21 u.s.c. 353; mas.gen.laws ann., c. 94, 187a, as amended. we conclude, accordingly, that, despite the statute's superficial earmarks as a health measure, health, on the face ..... while i join the opinion of the court, there is for me a narrower ground for affirming the court of appeals. this to me is a simple first amendment case, that amendment being applicable to the states by reason of the fourteenth. stromberg v. california, 283 u. s. 359 . under no stretch of the law as presently ..... medical and pharmaceutical channels, as massachusetts has done by statute. the appellee has succeeded, it seems, in cloaking his activities in some new permutation of the first amendment, although his conviction rests, in fact and law, on dispensing a medicinal substance without a license. i am constrained to suggest that, if the constitution can be .....
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..... c. 2. [ footnote 17 ] the first congressional copyright statute, passed in 1790, governed only maps, charts, and books. act of may 31, 1790, c. 15, 1 stat. 124. in 1802, the act was amended in order to grant protection to any person "who shall invent and design, engrave, etch or work . . . any historical ..... copyright protection for such recordings were introduced, but none was enacted. see ringer, the unauthorized duplication of sound recordings, studies prepared for the subcommittee on patents, trademarks, and copyrights of the senate committee on the judiciary, 86th cong., 2d sess., 21-37 (comm.print 1961). respondent argues that congress failed ..... originality of invention against the need to insure competition in the sale of identical or substantially identical products. the standards established for granting federal patent protection to machines thus indicated not only which articles in this particular category congress wished to protect, but which configurations it wished to remain free .....
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..... utility and the home. [ footnote 21 ] page 447 u. s. 789 over a century ago, this court recognized the principle that the due process provision of the fifth amendment does not apply to the indirect adverse effects of governmental action. thus, in the legal tender cases, 12 wall. 457, 79 u. s. 551 , the court stated: ..... ; and the case becomes stronger still as the precise nature of the effect on each individual comes more determinately within the decisionmaker's purview. for when government acts in a way that singles out identifiable individuals -- in a way that is likely to be premised on suppositions about specific persons -- it activates the special ..... dpw and hew, requiring payments to be continued for new patients as well as for patients already in the home and prohibiting any patient transfers until hew acted on town court's petition for reconsideration. after hew denied that petition, the district court dissolved the injunction and denied the plaintiffs any further relief, except .....
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..... the supplemental benefits. the secretary of health and human services has taken a direct appeal to this court under 28 u.s.c. 1252. i in october, 1972, congress amended the social security act (act) to create the federal supplemental security income (ssi) program, effective january 1, 1974. 86 stat. 1465, 42 u.s.c. 1381 et seq. this program was ..... dismiss both cases for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to exhaust the administrative remedies provided for by 1631(c)(3) of the act, as amended, 42 u.s.c. 1383(c)(3). see 542 f.2d at 1267-1268. [ footnote 7 ] on appeal, appellees abandoned their claims under the prior federal ..... coverage is not complete. from its very inception, the program has excluded from eligibility anyone who is an "inmate of a public institution." 1611(e)(1)(a) of the act, as amended, 42 u.s.c. 1382(e)(1)(a). [ footnote 3 ] also from the program's inception, congress has made a partial exception to this exclusion by providing .....
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..... discoveries on the one hand, and society's competing interest in the free flow of ideas, information, and commerce on the other hand, our patent and copyright statutes have been amended repeatedly. [ footnote 10 ] page 464 u. s. 430 from its beginning, the law of copyright has developed in response to significant changes ..... f. 240 (ca3 1903), appeal dism'd, 195 u.s. 625 (1904). congress continued this protection in the 1976 act. unlike the sound recording rights created by the 1971 amendment, the reproduction rights associated with motion pictures under 106(1) are not limited to reproduction for public distribution; the copyright owner's ..... question presented is whether the sale of petitioners' copying equipment to the general public violates any of the rights conferred upon respondents by the copyright act. respondents commenced this copyright infringement action against petitioners in the united states district court for the central district of california in 1976. respondents alleged that .....
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..... attempts to veil the impropriety of its decision to affirm on the merits despite the procedural posture of this case by implying that the challenged provisions are patently unconstitutional. but this claim too is unsupported in this court's decisions concerning state regulation of abortion. the discretionary exception the court fashions today will also prove ..... language and with the legislative intent reflected in that language; that the adverb "significantly" modifies the risk imposed on the woman; that the adverb is "patently not surplusage"; and that the language of the statute "is not susceptible to a construction that does not require the mother to bear an increased medical risk ..... was to become effective only 180 days thereafter, that is, on the following december 8. it had been offered as an amendment to a pending bill to regulate paramilitary training. the 1982 act was not the commonwealth's first attempt, after this court's 1973 decisions in roe v. wade, 410 u. s. 113 , and doe .....
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