Volume 15
Private Law 40–XXXII
to authorize Charles Grafton Page to apply for and receive a Patent.
Approved March 19, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize Charles Grafton Page to apply for and receive a Patent.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the commissioner of patents
Charles Grafton Page may apply for, &c. a patent.
is hereby authorized to receive and entertain a renewal of the application of Charles Grafton Page for letters patent for his “induction apparatus and circuit breakers,” now on file in the United States patent office, including therewith his circuit breakers, described by him prior to said application, and that if the commissioner shall adjudge the said Page to have been the first inventor thereof, he shall issue to him a patent, which patent shall be valid, notwithstanding said Page’s invention may have been described or in use prior to said application, and notwithstanding the fact that said Page is now an examiner in the United States patent office: Provided, That any person in possession of said apparatus prior to the date of said patent shall possess the right to use, and vend to others to use, the said specific apparatus in his possession without liability to the inventor, patentee, or any other person interested in said invention or patent therefor.
Approved, .