Chapter XIX. for the Relief of Alexander Smith and Halcyon Skinner
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CHAP. XIX.— An Act for the Relief of Alexander Smith and Halcyon Skinner.Feb. 20, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatApplication of Alexander Smith and Halcyon Skinner, for extension of patent to be reheard.Patent to be revived. the commissioner of patents, be and he is hereby, directed to grant a rehearing of the application of Alexander Smith and Halcyon Skinner, for the extension of letters-patent granted to them on the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for improvement in power-looms; and he is hereby authorized to revive and extend the said letteis-patent for the further termFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 19–21. 1872.31 of seven years from and after the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy, notwithstanding the original term for which letters-patent was granted has expired, and the said patentees had patented the said invention in foreign countries, and such foreign patents had expired before the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy, if in his judgment the said patentees were the original and first inventors of the invention described in the said letters-patent, and the invention is useful, and the patentees have failed, without neglect or fault on their part, to obtain from the use and sale of the said invention a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, labor, and expense bestowed upon the same and the introduction thereof into use.
And the said letters-patent, when so revived and extended, shall have the same effect in law as if it had been originally granted for the term of twenty-one years: *Provided,*Proviso. That all persons who at the time of the passage of this act had constructed, or caused to be constructed, or used looms on the plan of the said invention, shall be at liberty, during such extended term, to use and vend to others to use said looms so constructed or used. Approved, February 20, 1872.