...rights of inventors depend upon an enactment made in the reign of James I., in which is granted the privilege of the "sole working or making of any manner of new manufacture within the realm to the true and first inventor of such manufacture, which others, at the time of making...

...letters patents and grants of privilege for the term of one and twenty years or under heretofore made, of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufacture within this realm, to the first and true inventor or inventors of such manufactures which others at...

...except ' ' letters patent and grants of privilege for a term of twenty-one years or under hereafter made of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufacture within the realm to the first and true inventor of such manufacture." Thus, it will be observed that...

...the intention of the original " Statute of Monopolies (1623)," which permitted the granting of the privilege " of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this Realm to the true first inventor and inventors of such manufacture which others...