Excerpt from A Collection of the Most Important Cases Respecting Patents of Invention and the Rights of Patentees: Which Have Been Determined in the Courts of Law Since the Statue for Restraining Monopolies, to Which Are Added, Some Practical Observations Resulting From the Decisions on the Several CasesThe present collection to the public, not from any confidence in his superior qualifications for such an undertaking, as he is aware that the only merit he can claim is that of dili gence in collecting the materials. A great deal of laborious research, and he hopes due diligence, has been given, in collecting from various sources, what appeared to him to be the most important decisions upon the sub ject, and he takes this opportunity of ex; pressing his grateful thanks to those gentle men of the profession who have kindly fur nished him with the papers in many of the cases here reported, which he had no means of bringing before the public without their liberal assistance; but still many cases may.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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