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Compared to the Paris Convention of 1883, the Patent Cooperation Treaty further facilitated the process of obtaining patents for the same invention in different countries by extending the international filing window from 12 to 30 months, introducing unified criteria for patentability of an invention, and providing for a mandatory "international ...
The European Patent Convention does not mention method patents (called process patents) so prominently, and the same applies to the TRIPS Agreement. The prime characteristic of process patents in these treaties is that "the protection conferred by the patent shall extend to the products directly obtained by such process". [8]
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. Thomas Jefferson, who was Secretary of State at the time, realized the need to employ experts into the patent examination process.
Patent Board members, who also called themselves the "Commissioners for the Promotion of Useful Arts", [4] were given the authority to grant or refuse a patent after deciding if the invention or discovery was "sufficiently useful and important." [5] The first board members included Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph.
A patent does not give a right to make or use or sell an invention. [1] Rather, a patent provides, from a legal standpoint, the right to exclude others [1] from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the patented invention for the term of the patent, which is usually 20 years from the filing date [4] subject to the payment of ...
U.S. patent X1 Samuel Hopkins (December 9, 1743 – 1818) was an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On July 31, 1790, he was granted the first U.S. patent , under the new U.S. patent statute just signed into law by President Washington on April 10, 1790.
Thomas L. Jennings (c. 1791 – February 12, 1859) was an African-American inventor, tradesman, entrepreneur, and abolitionist in New York City, New York.He has the distinction of being the first African-American patent-holder in history; he was granted the patent in 1821 for his novel method of dry cleaning. [1]
Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.. Carlson invented electrophotography (now xerography, meaning "dry writing"), producing a dry copy in contrast to the wet copies then produced by the Photostat process; it is now used by millions of photocopiers worldwide.