...Appiica- eral government. Application is made, in writing, "on- to the Commissioner of Patents, by the person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, or composition...

...Section 4886, 35 USC 31, was as follows in 1921 at the time of Steinberger's application for his patent: Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof, not known or used by others in...

...sense as to entitle to patent thereunder. The section last named provides that — Any person who hag invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine,...or any new and useful improvement thereof not known nor used by others in this country, and not patented or detcribed in any printed publiiation in this...

...the short*t term and in no case shall it be in forcetnore than seventeen years. Section 4886 reads: Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, sannfactiire or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, lot known or used...

...our present system of patents. Under the law as it now stands, any person, whether citizen or alien, who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on an existing art, machine, manufacture,...

...considered and passed upon without reference to the caveat. Section 24 of the Patent Act provides, that any person who has invented or discovered any new...any new and useful improvement thereof, not known cf used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this...

...we might adduce a parallel case furnished by this very same general Act. — Section 24 says, "That any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine," «te., «fec., " may upon payment of the duty required by law, and other due proceedings had, obtain...

...of matter, that the spirit of the law does not require it, that inasmuch as Section 24 provides that any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, may, under certain conditions, obtain a patent therefor, the term discovery...

...period, the patent shall be withheld. (Ibid., s. 23, p. 201.) What Inventions are Fatentable. — SEC. 4886. Any person who has invented or discovered any...any new and useful improvement thereof, not known nor used by others in thia country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this...

...what inventions or discoveries are patentable, and congress has used therein the following language : "Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new or useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in...