121, 22 Atl. 841, 27 Am. St. Rep. 677.—Patent-right dcoaler, Any one whose business it is to sell, or offer for sale, patent-rights. 14 St. at Large, 118.—Pateent rolls. he official records of royal charters and grants; covering from the reign of King John to recent times. They contain grants of offices and lands, restitutions of temporalities to ecclesiastical persons, confirmations of grants made to bodies corporate, patents of creation of eers, and licenses of all kinds. Hubb. Succ. 17; 32 Phila. Law Lib. 429.—Pioneer patent. A patent for an invention covering a function never before performed. or a wholly novel device, or one of such novelty and importance as to mark a distinct step in the progress of the art, as distinguished from a mefe improvement or perfecting of what has gone before. Westinghouse v. Boyden Power-Brake Co., 170 U. 8S. 537, 18 Sup. Ct. 707, 42 L. Ed. 1136.