Wickershara  v.  Singer,  1  MacArthur  Pat.  Gas.  045,  687.  They
have  been  held,  in  Mowry  v.  Barber,  1  MacArthur  Pat.  Gas.  663,  to


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be  an  abandonment,  and  in  Colgate  v.  Western  Union  Tel.  Co.,  4
Bann.  &  A.  Pat.  Cos.  36,  not  to  be  one.
T9.  Patents  Granted  to  Assignee.
Patents  may  be  granted  and  issued  or  reissued  to  the
assignee  of  the  inventor  or  discoverer  ;  but  the  assignment
must  first  be  entered  of  record  in  the  patent-ofiice.  And  in
all  cases  of  an  application  by  an  assignee  for  the  issue  of  a
patent,  the  application  shall  be  made  and  the  specification
sworn  to  by  the  inventor  or  discoverer  ;  and  in  all  cases  of
an  application  for  a  reissue  of  any  patent,  the  application
must-be  made  and  the  coi-rected  specification  signed  by  the
inventor  or  discoverer,  if  he  is  living,  unless  the  patent  was
issued  and  the  assignment  made  before  the  eighth  day  of
July,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy.    Bev.  Stat.  §  4895.
