Stearns v. Davis

Citations

• 1 MacA. Pat. Cas. 696
• 22 F. Cas. 1182

Syllabus

<p>Original inventory-delay — effect of. — When the invention is “ suggested ” by one of the parties to the interference, and is reduced to practice by the other in accordance with such suggestion, the party first named is the first and only inventor, and the second party can acquire no title to the invention by the failure of the real inventor to follow up and perfect his invention with reasonable diligence. In such a case the invention would be forfeited, if at all, to the public.</p>