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Angel Vargas vs. F. M. Yaptico & Co. (Ltd.) 040 Phil 195

ANGEL VARGAS, plaintiff-appellant, vs. F. M. YAPTICO & Co. (LTD.), defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 14101 | 1919-09-24

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J .:

Rude wooden implements for tilling the soil have been in use in the Philippines, possibly not since the Israelites "went down to sharpen every man his share and his coulter," but certainly for many years. Iron plows called "Urquijo" and "Pony" have latterly been the vogue.

Angel Vargas, a farmer acquainted with local conditions and alive to the commercial possibilities, took it upon himself to produce, with the native plow as the model, an improved, adjustable plow. On July 22, 1910, he made application for a United States patent to cover his so-called invention. On March 12, 1912,...