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The first US land patent was issued on March 4, 1788, to John Martin. [4] That patent reserves to the United States one third of all gold, silver, lead and copper within the claimed land. A land patent for a 39.44-acre (15.96 ha) land parcel in present-day Monroe County, Ohio, and within the Seven Ranges land tract.
Schillinger v. United States: 155 U.S. 163: 1894: Patent infringement claim against the United States cannot be asserted. Black Diamond Coal Mining Company v. Excelsior Coal Company: 156 U.S. 611: 1895: Consolidated Electric Light Co v. McKeesport Light Co: 159 U.S. 465: 1895: Risdon Iron & Locomotive Works v. Medart: 158 U.S. 68: 1895: Boyden ...
This is a list of notable patent law cases in the United States in chronological order. The cases have been decided notably by the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) or the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI). While the Federal Circuit (CAFC) sits below the Supreme Court ...
An early commissioner was John McLean, later an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The BLM makes images of GLO records (federal land patents, survey plats and field notes, land status records, and tract books) issued between 1787 and present publicly available on its website. [5]
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.
First Kennebec Patent, 1627; Mason's Lands, 1629; Gorges Patent, (de facto 1629; official 1639) Comnock's Patent, 1629; Second Kennebec Patent (also known as the Kennebec Purchase or Plymouth Patent), 1629; Lygonia Patent, 1630; Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo Patent, and, eventually, the Bingham Purchase), 1630; Pemaquid Patent, 1631
Letters patent issued by the United States United States General Land Office. The primary source of letters patent in the United States are intellectual property patents and land patents, though letters patent are issued for a variety of other purposes. They function dually as public records and personal certificates.
The General Land Office ("GLO"), was a forerunner to the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM"), and it administered the sale of the small tracts ("GLO Lots") to the veterans. The "Patent" is just what the US Government calls the document that transferred title to the veteran or a veteran's widow.