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English: Bar chart showing number of United States utility patents issued by year, from 1976, with indicators of issue dates of Patent Nos. 5,000,000, 6,000,000 ... 11,000,000 Data source for Version 4 is USPTO (calendar years):
The delay was attributed by spokesmen for the Patent Office to a combination of a sudden increase in business method patent filings after the 1998 State Street Bank decision, the unfamiliarity of patent examiners with the business and financial arts (e.g., banking, insurance, stock trading etc.), and the issuance of a number of controversial ...
The publication data encompasses the publication number given when the patent is published, 18 months after filling and the publication date. The issue date is the data the patent is granted, usually 3.5 years after filling depending on the patent office. Crossing dates and locations fields offer a global vision of a technology in time and space.
Yrs: The number of years from first issuance to most recent issuance, rounded to first decimal based on dates. Pats /Yr: The average number of patents received per year [Pats column divided by Yrs column, rounded]. Inv / Pat: The average number of inventors listed on the inventor's most recent 50 patents as of September 7, 2021 or on the date ...
In the United States, for utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, the term of the patent is 20 years from the earliest filing date of the application on which the patent was granted and any prior U.S. or Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications from which the patent claims priority (excluding provisional applications). For patents ...
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1876: Alexander Graham Bell has a patent granted for the telephone. However, other inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers. [431] 1877: Thomas Edison invents the first working phonograph. [432] 1878: Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather. [433]
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