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[19] [20] This Confederate Patent Act explicitly allowed slave owners to patent inventions made by their slaves, in contrast to United States patent law, which had previously denied such applications. [18] On June 28, 1864, Montgomery, no longer a slave, filed a patent application for his device, but the patent office again rejected his ...
The Patent Act of 1836 (Pub. L. 24–357, 5 Stat. 117, enacted July 4, 1836) established a number of important changes in the United States patent system. [1] These include: The examination of patent applications prior to issuing a patent. This was the second time this was done anywhere in the world.
Obtaining patents became much easier during the period after the Patent Act of 1793 and the next federal Patent Act passed in 1836. 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.
The patent laws were again revised in 1836, [23] and the examination of patent applications was reinstituted. [24] In 1870 Congress passed a law which mainly reorganized and reenacted existing law, but also made some important changes, such as giving the commissioner of patents the authority to draft rules and regulations for the Patent Office ...
1790. First Patent Act empowered the Secretary of State, the Secretary for the Department of War, and the Attorney General to examine patents for inventions deemed "sufficiently useful and important." 1793. Second Patent Act eliminated examination of patent applications, emphasized enablement requirement. This Act did not have a requirement for ...
July 13 – U.S. patent #1 is granted after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents. July 30 – The first English language newspaper is published in Hawaii. August 1 – Abolition Riot of 1836 in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Two fugitive slave women are freed from the courtroom by spectators. August 30 – The city of Houston, Texas, is ...
The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas. Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people.
In United States history, the gag rule was a resolution in the United States House of Representatives that forbade legislators from raising, considering, or discussing slavery. First passed in 1836 and renewed in some form in every legislative session until its repeal in 1844, the gag rule played a key role in escalating sectional tensions over ...