Excerpt from Reports of Cases Arising Upon Letters Patent for Inventions, Vol. 2: Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States Tms volume brings the reports of cases down to the close of the year 1865. The reporter confesses to some disappointment at being unable to include at least another year, but it was impossible to do so within the compass of a volume of reasonable size. It is true that some of the cases reported relate mainly to questions of fact, and do not involve any legal point of special interest; but, since patent suits are now almost universally brought on the equity side of the court, every practitioner in this specialty will realize the importance of a knowledge of the manner in which the judges of the several circuits deal with questions of fact. As a volume of reports in a single department of the law must necessarily have a limited circulation, and would present very few attractions to publishers, it seemed as if the profession must depend for such a book upon individual enterprise. A limited edition, at a some what advanced price, which could be speedily disposed of, was the only manner in which the labor of publishing and distributing such a work could be reconciled with more legitimate professional engage ments. 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.