The Patent Office: Its History, Activities and Organization

Name: The Patent Office: Its History, Activities and Organization
Cite: The Patent Office: Its History, Activities and Organization, The Institute for Government Research: 1924.
Year: 1924
Bluebook cite: Gustavus A. Weber, The Patent Office: Its History, Activities and Organization, The Institute for Government Research: 1924.
Author: Gustavus A. Weber
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Summary: Act of 1790. 3-4 (describing purpose of patent acts; describing Jeffersonâ€™s role as first administrator of the U.S. patent system, supported by board of examiners). Act of 1793. 4-6 (revising 1790 act so that patent grants were not prima facie evidence of validity: â€œattributes of a patent could only be ascertained by litigation.â€). 1793 act resulted in the grant of many worthless patents, a â€œfloodingâ€ of patent monopolies, and an increase in litigation and fraud, which deprives those worthy inventors of the rewards the patent laws were intended to confer upon him. 8. It was amended and enlarged by later acts, but beginning in 1836, Congress revised the entire act, in an attempt to correct the failings of the 1793 act, with laws passed in 1836 and subsequent years. 7-15 (describing Act of 1836 and subsequent legislation).

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