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The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.
G. Donald Harrison (1889–1956), builder of music organs; Walter de Havilland (1872–1968), father of film stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. Ralph Horween (1896–1997), Harvard Crimson and NFL football player; Gerald D. Hosier, patent litigator, named highest-paid attorney by Forbes magazine in 2000
Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents): patent of higher lifeforms (CA, 2002) Honeywell v. Sperry Rand (US, 1973) Hotchkiss v. Greenwood (US, 1850) Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd v ZTE Corp. and ZTE Deutschland GmbH (European Court of Justice, C-170/13, 2015), judgement on standard-essential patents
The applicants (Bernard L. Bilski and Rand Warsaw) filed a patent application (on 10 April 1997) for a method of hedging risks in commodities trading via a fixed bill system. Such patent claims are often termed business method claims. The serial number for the patent application is 08/833,892. The text is available on the USPTO web site. [6]
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...
The patent rolls comprise a register of the letters patent issued by the Crown, and sealed "open" with the Great Seal pendent, expressing the sovereign's will on a wide range of matters of public interest, including – but not restricted to – grants of official positions, lands, commissions, privileges and pardons, issued both to individuals and to corporations.
The first patent "specification" was to inventor Abel Foullon for "Usaige & Description de l'holmetre", (a type of rangefinder.) Publication was delayed until after the patent expired in 1561. [11] Patents were granted by the monarchy and by other institutions like the "Maison du Roi" and the Parlement of Paris.
Edward H. Phillips v. AWH Corporation, Hopeman Brothers, Inc., and Lofton Corporation : Decided: July 12 2005: Citations: 415 F.3d 1303; 75 U.S.P.Q.2d 1321: Holding; The most important source in the evidentiary hierarchy of claim construction is the ordinary meaning of the language of the claims themselves and other intrinsic sources like the ...