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The history of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. [1] Early precedents ... Rockman, Howard B. (2004).
Superintendent of Patents [4] [2] William Thornton: June 1, 1802: March 28, 1828 Thomas P. Jones: April 12, 1828: June 10, 1829 John D. Craig: June 11, 1829: February 1, 1835 James Chamberlayne Pickett: February 1, 1835: May 1835 Commissioner of Patents (Patent Act of July 4, 1836) [4] Henry L. Ellsworth: July 8, 1835: April 1, 1845 [5] Edmund ...
Hotchkiss v. Greenwood, 52 U.S. (11 How.) 248 (1851), was a United States Supreme Court decision credited with introducing into United States patent law the concept of non-obviousness as a patentability requirement, [1] as well as stating the applicable legal standard for determining its presence or absence in a claimed invention.
The position of Under Secretary and Director of the United States Patent Office was created by the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act, [2] which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 29, 1999. It was made effective January 17, 2001, by Department of Commerce Department Organization Order (DOO) no. 10-14. [3]
LLP, Ladas & Parry. "A Brief History of the Patent Law of the United States". New York, 1999. Web Page. . Muir, Ian, Matthias Brandi-Dohrn, and Stephan Gruber. European Patent Law : Law and Procedure under the Epc and Pct. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Robert B. Matchette et al. "Records of the Patent and Trademark Office".
First United States patent The National Inventors Hall of Fame is housed in the Madison Building of the USPTO. On July 31, 1790, the first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement "in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process". This patent was signed by then-President George Washington.
Later, to avoid a court fight that might have nullified the patent, Pfizer and Cyanamid let Bristol-Myers in. [2] The Federal Trade Commission found that the cross-license, combined with the fact that Pfizer had withheld information that it knew or should have known was relevant to the patentability of tetracycline, constituted an attempt by ...
Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard, 87 U.S. (20 Wall.) 498 (1874), is an 1874 decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the patent eligibility of abstract ideas. [1] As explained below in the Subsequent developments section, it is intermediate in the development of that aspect of patent law from Neilson v Harford , [ 2 ] through O ...