| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Before 1793, the first United States patent act (1790) provided that an infringer should pay to the patent owner general damages, defining them as ???such damages as shall be assessed by a jury, and moreover shall forfeit to the person aggrieved, the thing or things so devised ... contrary to the true intent of this act, which may be recovered in an action on the case founded on this act.???[33] U
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