• The printing patent or printing privilege was a precursor of modern copyright. It was an exclusive right to print a work or a class of works. The earliest...
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    Similar grants included land patents, which were land grants by early state governments in the US, and printing patents, a precursor of modern copyright...
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  • immediate use or salvaged for printing again by remelting. This appears to be the first patent describing 3D printing with rapid prototyping and controlled...
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    business advisor/mentor. He holds the first 3D printing patent, along with patents for other 3D printing technologies (piezo transducer, extrusion, lithography...
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  • U.S. patent 0,126,535 – Printing-Telegraphs U.S. patent 0,128,131 – Printing-Telegraphs U.S. patent 0,128,604 – Printing-Telegraphs U.S. patent 0,128...
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    Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include...
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    first given substance by Red Hat in 2001 when it published its Patent Promise. The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15, 2005, by the Open...
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    embossed). Printing presses that use continuous rolls are sometimes referred to as "web presses". William Nicholson filed a 1790 patent for a rotary...
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    Poster campaign - FESPA | Screen, Digital, Textile Printing Exhibitions, Events and Associations". US patent 3689346, Rowland, William P., "Method for producing...
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    involved in music publishing. From 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a type of monopoly). He used the monopoly in partnership with professional...
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    A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring...
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  • Direct-to-garment printing (DTG) is a process of printing on textiles using specialized aqueous ink jet technology. DTG printers typically have a platen...
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    the patent office; the other attached to the patent grant transmitted to the applicant. The requirement ended in 1870 when the Office began printing complete...
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    when he filed his patent for the process. Hull patented stereolithography as a method of creating 3D objects by successively "printing" thin layers of an...
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    Dot matrix printing, sometimes called impact matrix printing, is a computer printing process in which ink is applied to a surface using a relatively low-resolution...
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    Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper or plastic substrates. Inkjet printers...
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    sell a rotatable multicolour garment screen printing machine in 1960. Vasilantone later filed for a patent on his invention in 1967 granted number 3,427...
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    of a patent for an offset disc machine (two rubber transfer rollers facing each other) – rolling-press. In 1907, he successfully started printing in Germany...
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    Suma de Geographia in Spain by at least 1518. Enciso was granted a printing patent for Suma in Zaragoza on 5 September 1518. The work was first published...
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    Paracopyright Philosophy of copyright Photography and the law Pirate Party Printing patent, a precursor to copyright Private copying levy Production music Rent-seeking...
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    Solid ink (redirect from Solid Ink printing)
    expand Solid inks into a new direction and led to a Three-Dimensional printing patent from an ex-Howtek employee who formed the company Visual Impact Corporation...
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  • substrates. Rotary drum printing was invented by Josiah Warren in 1832, whose design was later imitated by Richard March Hoe in 1843, patented in 1847, and then...
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    Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual...
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    underglaze printing in blue. Five years after Brooks's first patent attempt, in 1756, John Sadler (in partnership with Guy Green) claimed in a patent affidavit...
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  • to reform the English printing trade to Martin Luther's efforts at reforming Christianity) and his disdain for the printing patent system of Elizabethan...
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    Teleprinter (category Impact printing)
    Wheatstone received a British patent covering telegraphy in 1837 and a second one in 1840 which described a type-printing telegraph with steel type fixed...
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  • of legislation to impose to librarians and editors the request of a printing patent, did not make any mention of authors. This regime privileged editors...
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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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  • manuscript which it is not possible to date exactly. Morley held a printing patent (a type of copyright protection) and published the tune in First Booke...
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    assignee of Thomas Morley, who as well as being a composer held a printing patent (a monopoly of music publishing). He published Anthony Holborne's Pavans...
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