Excerpt from The American Specification in Europe: A Discussion of Foreign Patent Office and Court Practice With Particular Reference to the Interpretation of Specifications and Claims in Great Britain and Germany Summarizing, it has been shown that the Amer ican specification is a source of trouble in Europe because the function of a specification in Europe is to point out the invention itself, in addition to describing a practical working embodiment. It is submitted that the U. S. Attorney can avoid the majority of these objections by adopting, at the time of preparing specifications for filing in the U. S. Patent Office, the following simple rules, which, it is thought, make not only for an improvement in the conditions under which patent applications for American inventors are prosecuted abroad, but will also be of some assistance in the practice before the U. S. Patent Office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.