DEVICE

device.  1.Patents.  A  mechanical  invention,  as  differentiated  in  patent  law  from  a  chemical

discovery. • A device may be an apparatus or an article of manufacture. — Also termed machine.

[Cases:  Patents    11.  C.J.S.  Patents  §§  20,  25.]  2.  A  scheme  to  trick  or  deceive;  a  stratagem  or

artifice, as in the law relating to fraud. [Cases: Fraud    3.] [Blacks Law 8th]