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  2. Charles Holland Duell - Wikipedia

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    He was the United States Commissioner of Patents of the United States Patent Office (now the United States Patent and Trademark Office) from 1898 to 1901. He resumed private practice in New York City from 1901 to 1904. [1] He was a presidential elector in 1908. [2]

  3. History of United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    The original patent term under the 1790 Patent Act was decided individually for each patent, but "not exceeding fourteen years". [26] The 1836 Patent Act (5 Stat. 117, 119, 5) provided (in addition to the fourteen-year term) an extension "for the term of seven years from and after the expiration of the first term" in certain circumstances. [ 27 ]

  4. Freedom of speech in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."

  5. History of patent law - Wikipedia

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    First patents. American. X Series : U.S. patent X000001 "Improvements in making pot ash and pearle ash" 1st Numerical : U.S. patent 0,000,001 "Traction Wheel" 1st Design : U.S. patent D000001 Script font type; 1st Reissued : U.S. patent RE00001 "Grain Drill" Websites. An Economic History of Patent Institutions; French Patent History

  6. Freedom of speech - Wikipedia

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    Freedom of speech and expression has a long history that predates modern international human rights instruments. [4] It is thought that the ancient Athenian democratic principle of free speech may have emerged in the late 6th or early 5th century BC. [5] Freedom of speech was vindicated by Erasmus and Milton. [4]

  7. Marketplace of ideas - Wikipedia

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    The marketplace of ideas is a rationale for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market.The marketplace of ideas holds that the truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse and concludes that ideas and ideologies will be culled according to their superiority or inferiority and widespread acceptance among the ...

  8. Patent Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    The Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) was the first patent statute passed by the federal government of the United States. It was enacted on April 10, 1790, about one year after the constitution was ratified and a new government was organized.

  9. Reginald Fessenden - Wikipedia

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    Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in various fields, most notably ones related to radio and sonar.