Jillson v. Winsor

Citations

• 1 MacA. Pat. Cas. 136
• 13 F. Cas. 632

Syllabus

<p>Reasons of appeal — decision confined thereto. — -The refusal of the Commissioner to receive as evidence certain certificates of manufacturers and others not having been assigned as error in the reasons of appeal, cannot be considered as such by the judge upon appeal.</p> <p>Evidence — certificate under oath. — Certificates not under oath in due form of law, cannot be received as evidence in an interference proceeding.</p> <p>Evidence — drawings without testimony no evidence. — A drawing in an account-book in the possession of one of the parties to the interference not of itself evidence that the invention therein shown was the invention of such party, and not taken as evidence of the existence of the invention at the date of the surrounding entries in the book, in the absence of corroborating circumstances or the positive testimony of witnesses.</p>