...the constitution to be employed to carry that purpose and object into effect, is found in the words "by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their discoveries." It was to the ingenuity of the American inventors, then, that the founders of the Government looked...

...Constitution which provides: "The Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to ... inventors the exclusive rights to their discoveries" (Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 8), and therefore the foundation of that large class of monopolies resting on...

...useful arts," the accomplishment of which required a reconciliation of private and public interests. Securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their discoveries in return for the promotion of invention harmonized the private interest of the inventor and the welfare...

...Constitution provides that the Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their respective discoveries. By the last clause of the same section, Congress is given power to make all...

...Constitution provides that the Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their respective discoveries. By the last clause of the same section, Congress is given power to make all...

...clause 8 of the Constitution, Congress is given power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their respective discoveries. RS 4886 as amended (US Code, Title 35, § 31) is the last of a series of statutes...

...clause 8 of the Constitution, Congress is given power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their respective discoveries. RS 4886 as amended (US Code, Title 35, § 31) is the last of a series of statutes...

...clause 8 of the Constitution, Congress is given power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to their respective discoveries. RS 4886 as amended (US Code, title 35, § 31) is the last of a series of statutes...

...eighteenth century, by which Congress is empowered "to promote the progress of science and of the useful arts by securing for limited times to * * * inventors...the exclusive rights to their * * * discoveries." SIGNIFICANCE AND VARIED CHARACTER OF PATENT OFFICE WORK The Patent Office issues patents relating to...

...eighteenth century, by which Congress is empowered “to promote the progress of sciences and of the useful arts by securing for limited times to * * * inventors...the exclusive rights to their * * * discoveries.” The Patent Office is therefore the springboard of progress. For more than 125 years its function has...