...Corp. v. Halliburton, 306 US 550; Cuno Engineering Corp. v. Automatic Devices Corp., 314 US 84, 90. This test is often difficult to apply; but its purpose...patent system is not reward of the individual but 327 Opinion of the Court. the advancement of the arts and sciences.1 Its inducement is directed to...

...display "invention," "more ingenuity » * * than the work of a mechanic skilled in the art." * * * This test is often difficult to apply; but its purpose...innovation for which society is truly indebted to the «fforts of the patentee. The primary purpose of our patent system is not reward of the individual...

...330 the established test of patentability : than the work of a mechanic skilled in the art." * * * This test Is often difficult to apply ; but its purpose...is truly indebted to the efforts of the patentee. In the instant case, the appellant's contribution clearly does not meet the test above set forth. As...

...there should be no allowance of patent claims, unless those claims define some substantial innovation, "an innovation for which society is truly indebted to the efforts of the patentee." The proper test for the allowance of patent claims, such as we have here, as I construe the statute,...