Nathan Clifford

Name: The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent
Author: Nathan Clifford

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“The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent”, is a work by Nathan Clifford. It explores elements such as patent, ingredients and combination.

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Old ingredients are not the proper subjects of letters-patent in any other form than as a combination, for the plain reason that nothing is the proper subject of a patent which is not both new and useful. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Applicants for a patent are required to file in the Patent Office a written description of their invention and of the manner and process of making, constructing, and using the same, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, and use the same; and in the case of a machine he must explain the principle thereof and the best mode in which he has contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Seed-planter is the name of the invention given in the patent, but in the introductory part of the specification it is denominated 'new and useful improvements in seed-planters for planting corn and smaller grains.' Very minute description is given of the machine and of the several devices of which the machine is composed, for the declared purpose of enabling others skilled in the art to make and use the invention. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Surrendered patents cease to be a cause of action from the moment the surrender takes place, nor can the owner of the patent recover, even for an infringement which preceded the surrender, unless the claim for profits or damages had passed into judgment before the surrender took place. Such a patent, though inoperative as a cause of action, may be admitted as evidence to support or disprove an issue that the reissued patent is not for the same invention as the original. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Patents may also be granted for a machine or for a separate and distinct device, but it cannot be held that such a patent is valid unless it be proved that the patentee is the original and first inventor of the thing patented. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Evidently that claim is not intended to cover the whole machine; nor would it benefit the complainant even if it could receive that construction, as it is not pretended that he was the original and first inventor of such a planting machine, nor that the specification of the original patent professed to describe such an original invention. Machines of the kind have existed for a very long period before the date of the complainant's patent, even for a period whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ No. 1091.-Two claims are contained in this patent as follows: (1.) The placing of both the driver and the person who operates the seed-slides or valves, in such a position on the seed-planter that each may attend to his particular duty without interfering with that of the other. (2.) The so locating the seats or stands for those persons, in combination with the machine, that the weight of one of the persons may be used to counterbalance or overbalance the weight of the other, for the purpose of more readily raising or lowering the seeding apparatus. ”

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Nathan Clifford, The Corn-Planter Patent — Dissent

“ Courts of justice cannot accomplish such an object by construction nor in any other mode, for several reasons: (1.) Because the province of construction is restricted to the ascertainment of the meaning of the language employed in the grant. ”

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