...question of fact. [See Hevised Statutes, Section 4897.] SECTION 36. And be it further enacted, That every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable...the whole or any specified part of the United States ; and said assignment, grant, or conveyance shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee...

...Assignments of patents are not required to be. under seal. The statute RS, sec. 4898, simply provides that " every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing." (p. 420.) 2. A corporation may bind itself by a contract not under its corporate seal when the law...

...to be used, for the period prescribed by the Patent Act ; and the provision is that every patent and any interest therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. R. S., sees. 4884, 4898. Letters patent (a) bearing date July 12, 18H9, were granted to William Goodale,...

...therein, is by statute made assignable by an instrument in writing, and the patentee or his assignee may, in like manner, grant and convey an exclusive right under his patent throughout any specified part of the United States. All such assignments must be recorded in the Patent...

...within a specified area unless such rights are exclusive. Sec. 4898, Rev. Stat. : " The patentee . . . may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his patent to . . . any specified part of the United States." See also Potter ». Holland (1858), 4 Blatch. 206 ;...

...or any Interest therein shay be assignable In law by an Instrument In writing ; and the pat* entee or his assigns or legal representatives may. In like manner, grant and convey au exclusive right under h» patent to the whole or any epeclfied part of the United States. ' REISSUES....

...portion of the United States," while the thirty-sixth section authorized the patentee or his assigns " to grant and convey an exclusive right under his patent...whole, or any specified part, of the United States." The language is substantially reproduced in sections 4898 and 4919 of the Revised Statutes. The question...

...US Rev. Stats., $ 4898 provides: "Every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable in law bv an instrument in writing; and the patentee or his assigns or legal representatives may, in tike manner, grant and convey an exclusive right under his patent to the whole or any specified part...

...the parties agree upon. But (xx) Aiken v. Manchester Print Works, ! Clif. 435. (y) Act 1870, § 3fi: "Every patent, or any interest therein, shall be assignable...the whole or any specified part of the United States ; und eaiil assignment, grant, or conveyance, shall he void as against any subsequent purchaser or...

...Revised Statutes of the United States being section 36 of the Patent Act of July 8, 1870, provides that " every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable...whole or any specified part of the United States." And it adds : "An assignment, grant, or conveyance shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser...