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Inventing history: the holder of the first U.S. patent

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Pittsford Samuel Hopkins was the holder of the first US patent, granted in 1790 for discovering a method of producing pearlash, a more refined form of potash, an essential ingredient in the 18th century manufacture of soap. The US Patent and Trademark Office provided this information in a chronology of significant events given in a 1988 publication. Hopkins hailed from Pittsford, Vermont.

Author: Maxey, David W.
Publisher: Patent and Trademark Office Society
Publication Name: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0882-9098
Year: 1998
United States, History, Intellectual property, Patents, Hopkins, Pittsford Samuel

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Constitutionality of a multi-national patent system, part II

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Issues concerning the constitutionality of U.S. ceding of the power for the granting and enforcing of patents to a multinational patent agency are discussed. Cases revealing the court's position on the delegation of judicial power, especially those on NAFTA, are discussed.

Author: Okey, David W.
Publisher: Patent and Trademark Office Society
Publication Name: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0882-9098
Year: 1999
International, Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Patents (International law), Delegation of powers

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