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claim

: a formal assertion made by an applicant for a patent of the novelty and patentability of an invention with a description of the invention and its purpose claim vt

anticipation

anticipation : the knowledge or use of an invention in the U.S. or the patenting or describing of the invention in a publication in the U.S. or

Quern

A mill for grinding grain the upper stone of which was turned by hand used before the invention of windmills and watermills

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Bill of Exchange

due course, Jones v. Waring, 1926 AC 670. The earliest recorded bills of exchange, according to Beckmann (Hist. Invent. iii. 430), are mentioned by the jurist Baldus, and bear date A.D. 1328. But they were by no

Anticipation

Anticipation, doing or taking a thing before the appointed time. For anticipation of an invention see PATENTS. A married woman may be restrained by the terms of a will or settlement from aliening,

Ac Etiam

in order to give the Court jurisdiction, Bouvier's Law Dict. The ac etiam clause appears to have been invented inconsequence of the enactment of 13 Car. 2, St. 2, c. 2, that the particular cause of action

Siderography

The art or practice of steel engraving especially the process invented by Perkins of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it when hardened a

Shrapnel

Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen H Shrapnel of the British army

VerbarShakudo

An alloy of copper invented by the Japanese having a very dark blue color approaching black

Saxhorn

A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax known as Adolphe Sax of Belgium and Paris and much used in military

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