Excerpt from Patents: Law and Practice This little booklet is not intended to be exhaustive in any particular. It is designed to serve as a convenient handbook, presenting in con cise form for ready reference the features most necessary to be available to lawyers, manufacturers and inventors to enable them to readily understand the leading points of the law and practice on this important subject matter, and to take the necessary steps to secure protection for this class of property. Mr. Richards, now deceased, the original founder of' our firm, who was the author of the first edition of this booklet, was guided in his selection of the material herein by the questions most frequently propounded by clients, and endeavored to compile the law and prac tice with respect to these questions in a comprehensive, logical man ner, having in mind the necessity for brevity and conciseness. Practically all the matter contained herein is based directly upon the Revised Statutes, the Rules of Practice of the United States Patent Office and the decisions of the Courts and Commissioners of Patents. The author has purposely refrained from giving the citations of decisions and authorities, feeling that if the pamphlet were inter spersed with numerous citations, the impression might be made that it was intended for a complete treatise and many might be deterred from a reading thereof. This second edition has been carefully re vised and enlarged by the addition of subject matter which we feel properly falls within the scope of a booklet of this character. For fuller information reference should be had to the Patent Law, the Rules of Practice of the United States Patent Office, the decisions of, the United States Court in patent matters, and the Various text books upon the subject, which are usually to be found in most law and public libraries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.