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    A patent model was a handmade miniature model no larger than 12" by 12" by 12" (approximately 30 cm by 30 cm by 30 cm) that showed how an invention works...
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    A utility model is a patent-like intellectual property right to protect inventions. This type of right is available in many countries but, notably, not...
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    patents, and utility models and Gebrauchsmuster are sometimes called petty patents or innovation patents. The additional qualification utility patent...
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  • Thumbnail for X-Patent
    The X-Patents are all the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from July 1790 (when the first U.S. patent was issued), to July...
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    A patent application or patent may contain drawings, also called patent drawings, illustrating the invention, some of its embodiments (which are particular...
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  • Thumbnail for Abraham Lincoln's patent
    his four-year-old son, Robert Todd Lincoln, to the Old Patent Office Building in 1847 to the model room to view the displays, an episode that Robert later...
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  • Thumbnail for Benz Patent-Motorwagen
    The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German engineer Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical automobile and...
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  • "Self-Adjusting Loom Temple Patent Model". americanhistory.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-04. "1837 Hartford and Tilton's Patent Model of a Loom Heddle". National...
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  • Thumbnail for United States Patent and Trademark Office
    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark...
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    Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical modern automobile and first car put into series production. He received a patent for...
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    interlocked stitch. Hunt completed his working model before he showed it to anyone. Hunt sold one-half the patent rights in 1834 to businessman and blacksmith...
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    000 models and 600,000 copy drawings were burned to some degree. No patents were completely lost, however (unlike the situation with the first Patent Office...
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  • A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...
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  • This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...
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  • Thumbnail for Singer Corporation
    stitch, developed by Elias Howe, who won a patent-infringement suit against Singer in 1854. Singer obtained patent no. 8294 in August 1851 for an improved...
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  • Thumbnail for 1836 U.S. Patent Office fire
    damage due to lack of fire personnel and proper equipment. Many patent documents and models from the preceding three decades were irretrievably lost. As...
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    patent – Essential patent – Insurance patent – Medical patent – Software patent – Submarine patentPatent application – request pending at a patent...
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  • Thumbnail for John Browning
    new Winchester Model 1911 SL, (Johnson had to work around Browning's patents of what became the Auto-5[citation needed]) and the new Model 1912 pump shotgun...
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    Paterson, New Jersey, Colt's Patent. The first firearm manufactured at the new Paterson plant, however, was the Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle beginning...
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  • Patent prosecution is the interaction between applicants and a patent office with regard to a patent application or a patent. The prosecution process is...
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  • patent caveat, often shortened to caveat, was a legal document filed with the United States Patent Office. Caveats were instituted by the U.S. Patent...
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    business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...
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  • Thumbnail for Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top
    The Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top is a metallic cartridge rear-loading .44-caliber revolver introduced in 1872 by the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing...
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  • German and Austrian patent laws, the Gebrauchsmuster (GebrM), also known as German utility model or Austrian utility model, is a patent-like, intellectual...
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  • procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...
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  • Thumbnail for Winchester Model 1907
    the Model 1905, Model 1907, and Model 1910. U.S. patent 681,481 Small cartridge, Winchester Model 1903 U.S. patent 694,157 Box magazine U.S. patent 720...
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  • software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents can be...
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  • Thumbnail for Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
    by John Browning and built by Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. The Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless is a variant...
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    IBM's Model F keyboards (for instance the AT keyboard), and the more common Model M. It is described in U.S. patent 4,118,611 (Model F) and U.S. patent 4...
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    Pistol MAB Patented Model A. The Model B appeared on the market in August 1932. It had even smaller dimensions than the preceding models and in appearance...
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