A COLLECTION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CASES RESPECTING PATENTS OF INVENTION AND The Rights of Patentees, WHICH HAVE BEEN DETERMINED IN THE COURTS OF LAW SINCE PREFACE. THE collector of these cases having been upwards of thirty years in the office of the Rolls Chapel, has frequently had his attention drawn to patents and specifications of inventions, that being one of the offices in which such specifications are enrolled; and having for many years been concerned for inventors, in soliciting patents for their inventions, he has consequently been led to think much upon the subject, and has felt great surprise, and regret, that no book of the kind, now proposed, has ever been produced by any gentleman versed in this sort of business, and competent to the work. He has mentioned his plan to several gentlemen in the profession of the law, to others, |