A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON The Law OF PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS AND OF COPYRIGHT: ILLUSTRATED BY NOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CASES; WITH AN ABSTRACT OF THE LAWS IN FORCE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Second Edition. BY RICHARD GODSON, M.A.-M. P. BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: SAUNDERS AND BENNING, LAW BOOKSELLERS, 43, FLEET STREET. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, LATELY LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN, A SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATOR OF THE SCIENCES, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS, AND A POWERFUL PROTECTOR OF SCIENTIFIC MEN, SCHOLARS, AND ARTISTS, THIS TREATISE, EXPLANATORY OF THE LAWS UNDER WHICH INVENTORS, SCHOLARS, AND ARTISTS, ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THEir genius, IS, WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT, DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR, PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THIS Book has been long out of print, and Supplements were at two several times published, with the view of saving expense to the purchasers of the original Work. For this edition-the Text has been carefully examined, and the Notes enlarged,-the cases lately decided have been collected and analysed, the new Acts of Parliament set forth and explained, and the Index much extended. The improvements effected in the Law, by which Patents for Inventions are better secured to scientific men, call for thanks from all men to LORD BROUGHAM for the Acts of Parliament which he introduced, and to the LEARNED JUDGES for the wise decisions favourable to Inventors to which they have arrived. |