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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Inquiries of this kind are often attended with difficulty; but if special attention is given to such portions of a given device as really do the work, so as not to give undue importance to other parts of the same, which are only used as a convenient mode of constructing the entire device, the difficulty attending the investigation will be greatly diminished, if not entirely overcome." 13 0 G. 366 (367). In Union Sugar Refinery v. Matthiesson & Co. (1865), 3 Clifford, 639, Clifford, J.: (663) " In determining that question, you are not to determine about similarities or differences merely by the names of things; you are to look at the machines and their several devices and elements in the light of what they do, or what office or function they perform, and how they perform it; and to find that a thing is substantially the same as another if it performs substantially the same function or office in substantially the same way, to attain substantially the same result; and that the things are substantially different when they perform different duties in substantially a different way, or produce a substantially different result. For the same reasons you are not to judge about similarities or differences merely because things are apparently the same or apparently different in shape or form; but the true test of similarity or difference in making the comparison is the same in regard to shape or form as in regard to name, and in both cases you must look at the mode of operation,--the way that the parts work, and at the result, as well as at the means by which the result is attained. In all your inquiries about the mode of operation of other machines, you are to inquire about and consider more particularly those portions of the particular part or element ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235966216
- ISBN 13 9781235966217
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages310
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