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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.
The Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) was the first patent statute passed by the federal government of the United States.It was enacted on April 10, 1790, about one year after the constitution was ratified and a new government was organized.
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.
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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".
America’s first patent statutes date to the 18th century, when steam engines and cotton gins were cutting-edge. The law that defines what inventions are patentable was written in 1793, and its ...
However, the first such patent for an electrical stove apparatus was awarded in the United States much earlier to George B. Simpson on September 20, 1859. Simpson's patent, US patent #25532 for an 'electro-heater' surface heated by a platinum-wire coil powered by batteries; [ 145 ] is described in his own words to be useful to "warm rooms, boil ...
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