Chapter CDXXXII. confirming and extending a Patent-right to Levi W
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CHAP. CDXXXII.— An Act confirming and extending a Patent-right to Levi W. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company.June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the rights described in theLetters-patent heretofore granted to Levi W. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Co. extended. letters-patent granted on the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to Levi W. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company, of the county of Eau Claire, and State of Wisconsin, and citizens of the United States, to an invention therein described and referred to, be granted, confirmed, and extended to the said Levi W.
Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company, their heirs and assigns, for the full term of seventeen years from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, notwithstanding that said invention may have been to some extent possessed and enjoyed390FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 432–434. 1872. by the public prior to the date of the application for said letters-patent, which was filed on the twenty-third day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, said invention so granted and confirmed being described in said letters and application as an “Improved device for sheering booms—letters-patent number eighty thousand six hundred and sixty-three, dated August fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight—Levi W.
Pond, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, assignor to himself and Eau Claire Lumber Company, of same place:” *Provided,* That all rights and privileges heretoforeRights, &c., heretofore sold. sold and granted by said patentees to make, construct, use, or vend the said invention, and not forfeited by the purchasers or grantees, shall inure to, and be enjoyed by, such purchasers or grantees respectively as fully and upon the same conditions, during the period hereby granted, as for the term that did exist when such sale or grant was made.
Sec. 2. That any person who had, more than two years prior to thePersons who had erected such machine, &c., for more than, &c., to have the right to use that specific machine. date of the application for said letters-patent, bona fide erected or constructed any such machine or structure for the purpose of putting said invention into use in any of its modifications, shall have and enjoy the right of using said invention in any such specific machine or structure so actually erected more than two years prior to the date of said application for said letters-patent as aforesaid, in all respects as though this act had not been passed: *Provided, however,* That no person without grant or license from said patentees, or their assigns, shall have or enjoy by virtue of this act any other or greater privileges or rights than he would have or enjoy if this act had not been passed.
Approved, June 10, 1872.