Chapter 94. To amend sections forty-eight hundred and eighty-eight and forty-eight hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to patents
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CHAP. 94.— An Act To amend sections forty-eight hundred and eighty-eight and forty-eight hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, relating to patents. March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 15220](/us/bill/63/hr/15220).][[Public, No. 282](/us/63/pl/282).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Patent applications.[R. S., Sec. 4888, p. 946](/us/rs/s4888/p946). That section forty-eight hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States Witnesses not required.be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out from the last clause thereof the words “and attested by two witnesses,” so that the section so amended will read as follows:
" “Sec. 4888. Requisites of application, description, specification, and claim.[R. S., sec. 4888, p. 946, amended](/us/rs/s4888/p946). Before any inventor or discoverer shall receive a patent for his invention or discovery, he shall make application therefor, in writing, to the Commissioner of Patents, and shall file in the Patent959Office a written description of the same, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with winch it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same; and in case of a machine, ho shall explain the principle thereof, and the best mode in which he has contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions; and he shall particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery.
The specification andWitness omitted. claim shall be signed by the inventor.” " Sec. 2. That section forty-eight hundred and eighty-nine of thePatent drawings.[R. S., sec. 4889](/us/rs/s4889).Witness not required. Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words “and attested by two witnesses,” so that the section so amended will read as follows: " “Sec. 4889. When the nature of the case admits of drawings, theDrawings, when requisite.[R.
S., sec. 4889, p.946, amended](/us/rs/s4889/p946).Witness omitted. applicant shall furnish one copy signed by the inventor or his attorney in fact, which shall be filed in the Patent Office; and a copy of the drawing to be furnished by the Patent Office, shall be attached to the patent as a part of the specification.” " Approved, March 3, 1915.