The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a " Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde " on December 7, 1909.

A request for reviewing the WARF patents 5, 843, 780 ; 6, 200, 806 ; 7, 029, 913 US Patent and Trademark Office were filed by non-profit patent-watchdogs The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, and the Public Patent Foundation as well as molecular biologist Jeanne Loring of the Burnham Institute.

The first cause of action alleged Blockbuster's infringement of U. S. Patent No. 7, 024, 381 ( issued April 4, 2006 ; only hours before the lawsuit was filed ) by copying the " dynamic queue " of DVDs available for each customer, Netflix's method of using the ranked preferences in the queue to send DVDs to subscribers, and Netflix's method permitting the queue to be updated and reordered.

Gould and Marsh Patent 24021, 17 May 1859, Edgar Patent 119335, 26 Sep 1871, Cramer Patent 152726, 7 Jul 1874, McChesney Patent 161086, 6 Apr 1875, Stewart Patent 497426, 19 Jan 1886, Adams Patent 682014, 3 Sep 1901, Nordbö Patent 1202882, 31 Oct 1916, Barnett Patent 1958227, 8 May 1934, Reuther Patent 2203393, 4 Jun 1940, Firestone Patent 2417639, 11 Jun 1945, and Reuther Patent 2557690, 5 Apr 1950.

In 1871, the U. S. Patent Office granted Kelly a renewal of his patent for 7 years while rejecting applications for renewal by Bessemer and Robert Forester Mushet, who had also received patents for the process.

On March 3, Wilber approved Bell's application and on March 7, 1876 patent 174, 465 was published by the U. S. Patent Office.

Patent 7, 386, 555 is related to the method of opening an exit pop from a toolbar or software application on a computing device, whereas Patent 7, 353, 229 covers the method used to open an exit pop from an embedded script found within a media file ( e. g. JavaScript code found in a web page ).

* US Patent 7, 386, 555 " Post-session internet advertising system "

* US Patent 7, 353, 229 " Post-session internet advertising system "

In 2010, the US Patent Office issued patent number 7, 647, 768 B1 for a series of hydraulic Torque Converters that use hydraulic friction rather than mechanical friction as a CVT.

Kinman also manufactures noiseless P-90 and Telecaster pickups under US Patent 7, 022, 909

DPRL appears in a patent filed by Xerox in November 1994 ( and was granted in February 1998 ) entitled: " System for Controlling the Distribution and Use of Digital Work Having Attached Usage Rights Where the Usage Rights are Defined by a Usage Rights Grammar " ( US Patent 5, 715, 403, issued to Xerox Corporation ).

* U. S. Patent: Method and Apparatus for Rendering Cell-Based Distance Fields Using Texture Mapping, Ronald Perry and Sarah Frisken

Filed 03 / 11 / 1974, Douglas G. Talley and L Duane Gregory applied for and were granted ( 08 / 02 / 1977 ) US Patent 4039760 for a duplex voice communication link including controls therefore as provided between a Base Station connected directly to a telephone line of a telephone exchange and a Mobile Unit consisting of a small, compact cordless telephone instrument containing transmitter, receiver and control circuits powered by a rechargeable battery pack.

* The British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents is founded ( now called Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys ).

MacEntee founded the Association of Patent Agents in 1929, having gained his interest in Patents when he worked as an assistant engineer in Dundalk Urban District Council.

Qualified members are being designated as " Registered Patent Attorneys ( HK )" for lawyers, " Registered Patent Agents ( HK )" for non-lawyers and " Registered Patent Engineers " for engineers.

Under Section 107 of Ireland's Patents Act, 1992 entry in the Register of Patent Agents requires that the applicant resides and has a place in a member state of the European Union and possesses the prescribed educational and professional qualifications, which are:

Once registered, a Patent Agent may then be elected as an ordinary member of the Association of Patent Agents of Singapore.

Both Patent Attorneys and Patent Agents are generally required to have a technical degree ( such as engineering, chemistry or physics ) and must take and pass the USPTO registration examination ( officially titled Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office ).

** List of Registered Patent Agents in India as of April 2010

An unusual curved perfin INVENTION from Patent Agents G. F. Redfern & Co. of London, whose telegraphic address was also INVENTION.

*‘ Memoir of Reginald Federick Cowling ’, Transactions of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, LXXXI ( 1962-3 ).

* Patent 8, 108, 455-Mobile Agents in Peer-to-Peer networks

It was founded in 1882 as the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891.

CIPA maintains the Register of Patent Agents under statutory authority on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and reports to the Comptroller-General of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs at the UK Intellectual Property Office.

* Patent 7, 275, 102-Trust Mechanisms for a Peer-to-Peer Network Computing Platform

* Patent 7, 308, 496-Representing Trust in Distributed Peer-to-Peer Networks

On May 25, 2006 the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the broadest part of Forgent Networks claims, stating prior art submitted by the Public Patent Foundation invalidated those claims.

* Forgent Networks JPEG Related Patent ( see Forgent Networks )

There were 1, 024 multi-family buildings ( 32. 2 %), along with 530 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing ( 16. 7 %) and 254 other use buildings ( commercial or industrial ) that also had some housing ( 8. 0 %).

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the largest county in Utah, of which 7, 820 mi² ( 20, 254 km² ) is land and 113 mi² ( 292 km² ) ( 1. 42 %) is water.

There were 41, 605 housing units at an average density of 1, 254. 7 per square mile ( 484. 4 / km² ).

The population density was 254. 4 people per square mile ( 97. 7 / km² ).

The population was spread out with 886 people ( 24. 9 %) under the age of 18, 254 people ( 7. 1 %) aged 18 to 24, 734 people ( 20. 7 %) aged 25 to 44, 1, 060 people ( 29. 8 %) aged 45 to 64, and 619 people ( 17. 4 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

There were 415 housing units at an average density of 64. 0 per square mile ( 24. 7 / km² ), of which 254 ( 65. 3 %) were owner-occupied, and 135 ( 34. 7 %) were occupied by renters.

The population was spread out with 275 people ( 23. 7 %) under the age of 18, 57 people ( 4. 9 %) aged 18 to 24, 149 people ( 12. 9 %) aged 25 to 44, 423 people ( 36. 5 %) aged 45 to 64, and 254 people ( 21. 9 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

There were 474 households, out of which 254 ( 53. 6 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 284 ( 59. 9 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 86 ( 18. 1 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 33 ( 7. 0 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

There were 2, 254 households, out of which 914 ( 40. 6 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1, 119 ( 49. 6 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 289 ( 12. 8 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 178 ( 7. 9 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

There were 1, 167 households, out of which 254 ( 21. 8 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 541 ( 46. 4 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 117 ( 10. 0 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 78 ( 6. 7 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

The population was spread out with 259 people ( 20. 0 %) under the age of 18, 96 people ( 7. 4 %) aged 18 to 24, 254 people ( 19. 6 %) aged 25 to 44, 449 people ( 34. 7 %) aged 45 to 64, and 236 people ( 18. 2 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

There were 7, 254 housing units at an average density of 1, 084. 3 per square mile ( 418. 6 / km² ), of which 4, 703 ( 67. 1 %) were owner-occupied, and 2, 310 ( 32. 9 %) were occupied by renters.

The population was spread out with 4, 254 people ( 32. 6 %) under the age of 18, 1, 783 people ( 13. 7 %) aged 18 to 24, 3, 605 people ( 27. 6 %) aged 25 to 44, 2, 499 people ( 19. 1 %) aged 45 to 64, and 917 people ( 7. 0 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

There were 5, 080 households, out of which 1, 440 ( 28. 3 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 2, 254 ( 44. 4 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 598 ( 11. 8 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 238 ( 4. 7 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

There were 1, 254 housing units at an average density of 227. 2 per square mile ( 87. 7 / km² ).

The population was spread out with 254 people ( 20. 0 %) under the age of 18, 72 people ( 5. 7 %) aged 18 to 24, 175 people ( 13. 8 %) aged 25 to 44, 523 people ( 41. 2 %) aged 45 to 64, and 246 people ( 19. 4 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

10, 395 people ( 75. 8 % of the population ) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 3, 254 people ( 23. 7 %) lived in rental housing units.

As of the census of 2000, there were 28, 543 people, 9, 349 households, and 7, 254 families residing in the town.

There were 254 households out of which 40. 6 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69. 7 % were married couples living together, 5. 9 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 21. 3 % were non-families.

The population density was 2, 254. 7 people per square mile ( 876. 0 / km² ).

There were 254 households out of which 37. 8 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60. 2 % were married couples living together, 7. 1 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 29. 1 % were non-families.