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Obtaining patents became much easier during the period after the Patent Act of 1793 and the next federal Patent Act passed in 1836. Between the Patent Act of 1790 and that of 1793, only 57 patents were granted, but by July 2, 1836, a total of 10,000 patents had been granted. [17] This however, came at an expense of the quality of patents granted.
The act was intended to grant patents only to the "useful Arts," which was usually the work of skilled workers and artisans, especially in the fields of engineering and manufacturing. [6] Obtaining a patent required first completing an examination, but this examination requirement was later dropped with the passing of the Patent Act of 1793.
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 [3] [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 ...
1790. First Patent Act empowered the Secretary of State, the Secretary for the Department of War, and the Attorney General to examine patents for inventions deemed "sufficiently useful and important." 1793. Second Patent Act eliminated examination of patent applications, emphasized enablement requirement. This Act did not have a requirement for ...
The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years. [6]
February 18, 1793: An Act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same, Sess. 2, ch. 8, 1 Stat. 305; March 2, 1793: Judiciary Act of 1793, Sess. 2, ch. 22, 1 Stat. 333 (including Anti-Injunction Act)
The first Patent Act of the U.S. Congress was passed on April 10, 1790, titled "An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts." ... In 1793, [21] the law was revised ...
[citation needed] The next Patent Act of 1793 did not have the important language, but stated that "simply changing the form or the proportions of any machine, or compositions of matter, in any degree, shall not be deemed a discovery." (This statement was actually adopted from the French Patent Law of 1791).