Excerpt from Digest of Decisions of Law and Practice in the Patent Office: And the United States and State Courts in Patents, Trade-Marks, Copyrights and Labels a Supplement to Hart's Digest, 1886-1897 In preparing this Supplement, the original plan of Hart's Patent Digest, 1886 1897, has been followed. Substantially the same sources have been drawn on as in the previous volume, the citations including Decisions of the Commissioners, the Secretary of the Interior, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the United States District and Cir cuit Courts, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and the Supreme Court of the United States. In many instances it was found necessary to extend the classification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.