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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]
Under the Patent Act of 1793, the United States barred foreign inventors from receiving patents at the same time as granting patents to Americans who had pirated technology from other countries. “America thus became, by national policy and legislative act, the world’s premier legal sanctuary for industrial pirates.
The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references for an inventor.
Patent Office Head [1] Began service: Ended service: Commissioners for the Promotion of Useful Arts or Patent Board [2] Edmund Randolph Henry Knox Thomas Jefferson: 1790: 1793 Secretary of State [a] [2] Edmund Randolph: 1794: 1795 Timothy Pickering: 1795: May 12, 1800 John Marshall: May 13, 1800: March 4, 1801 James Madison: March 5, 1801: 1802 ...
In 1641, Samuel Winslow was granted the first patent in North America by the Massachusetts General Court for a new process for making potash salt. [ 19 ] Towards the end of the 18th century, and influenced by the philosophy of John Locke , the granting of patents began to be viewed as a form of intellectual property right, rather than simply ...
The key patent for this light source, U.S. patent #2,259,040 was filed by Inman on April 22, 1936, and issued to him on October 14, 1941. [269] In 1976, Edward E. Hammer invented the first helical or spiraled compact fluorescent lamp, but due to the difficulty of the manufacturing process for coating the interior of the spiral glass tube ...
Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an American inventor who held more than 60 patents in the United States. [1] He was the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. [2]
Samuel Colt (/ k oʊ l t /; July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.