Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court January 15, 1862 (Vose v. Singer)

Chapman, J.

There is not in this country any limitation of the number of persons who may be joint owners of a patent right. In England it is otherwise. English letters patent contain a provision that if they shall at any time be vested in more than twelve persons or partners, they shall become void. But the St. of U. S. of 1836, c.