* Alfred Nobel US Patent No 78, 317, dated 26 May 1868

Tainter was granted Patent No. 385886 for it on July 10, 1888.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

A patent for such a device was issued to New York restaurateur Juvenico Maldonado in 1950, based on his patent filing of 1947 ( U. S. Patent No. 2, 506, 305 ).< ref >

* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.

* Patent No. 26, 532 ( December 20, 1859 ): The bass strings are " overstrung " above the treble strings to provide more length and better tonal quality.

* Patent No. 127, 383 ( May 28, 1872 ): In a Steinway piano, the cast iron plate rests on wooden dowels without actually touching the soundboard.

* Patent No. 156, 388 ( October 27, 1874 ): Steinway invented the middle piano pedal, called the sostenuto pedal.

* Patent No. 170, 645 ( November 30, 1875 ): Steinway's " regulation action pilot " – also known as the capstan screw, which lifts the parts that drive the hammer toward the string.

* Patent No. 233, 710 ( October 26, 1880 ): The bridge transmits the vibration of the strings to the soundboard.

* Patent No. 314, 742 ( March 31, 1885 ): The inner and outer case comprise up to 18 layers of solid, hard-textured, horizontal-grain timber, pressed and bent into shape in one operation.

* Patent No. 2, 051, 633 ( August 18, 1936 ): The soundboard resembles a membrane.

* Patent No. 3, 091, 149 ( May 25, 1963 ): The pin-block is specially designed to keep the instrument in tune longer.

* 1899: Charles Gordon Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in the USA (" Apparatus for generating mechanical power ", Patent No. US635, 919 ).

In 1987, Curtis filed a US patent application that subsequently issued as Patent No. 4, 753, 647.

In 2000, the US corporation RiceTec ( a subsidiary of RiceTec AG of Liechtenstein ) attempted to patent certain hybrids of basmati rice and semidwarf long-grain rice ( see U. S. Patent No. 5, 663, 484 ).

* French Patent No. 1, 377, 290, “ Construction de Reseaux Autotendants ”, September 28, 1964, David Georges Emmerich.

* French Patent No. 1, 377, 291, “ Structures Linéaires Autotendants ”, September 28, 1964, David Georges Emmerich.

In February 2012, two NGOs, Navdanya and No Patent on Seeds, filed documents opposing an EU patent awarded to Monsanto covering virus resistant traits of melons.

On January 30, 1962, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued Paul a patent, Patent No. 3, 018, 680, for an " Electrical Music Instrument.

The first patent for a toothbrush was by H. N. Wadsworth in 1857 ( US Patent No. 18, 653 ) in the United States, but mass production in the United States only started in 1885.

Ossberger's first patent was granted in 1933 (" Free Jet Turbine " 1922, Imperial Patent No. 361593 and the " Cross Flow Turbine " 1933, Imperial Patent No. 615445 ), and he manufactured this turbine as a standard product.

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

* 1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.

In 1986 the US Patent and Trademarks Office allowed the granting of a patent on the ayahuasca vine B. Caapi.

In 2001, after an appeal by the patent holder, the US Patent Office reinstated the patent.

After Oxford, Jackson got a job as a clerk in the Patent Office in London and arranged a job there for Housman as well.

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.

Other courts, for example, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the Supreme Court, always sit en banc, and thus the later decision controls.

In contrast, in non-common-law countries, and jurisdictions with very weak respect for precedent ( example, the U. S. Patent Office ), fine questions of law are redetermined anew each time they arise, making consistency and prediction more difficult, and procedures far more protracted than necessary because parties cannot rely on written statements of law as reliable guides.

; Patent ductus arteriosus ( PDA ): Failure of the ductus arteriosus to close on birth.

; Patent foramen ovale ( PFO ): An atrial septal defect in that the foramen ovale fails to close at birth.

In German, the names to statutes are abbreviated using embedded capitals, e. g. StGB ( Strafgesetzbuch ) for criminal code, PatG ( Patentgesetz ) for Patent Act or the very common GmbH ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) for Company with Limited Liability.

* U. S. Patent 2, 948, 718, August 1960

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

In the early 19th century the basics of modern techniques including pre-heating and reflux were developed, particularly by the French, then in 1830 a British Patent was issued to Aeneas Coffey for a whiskey distillation column, which worked continuously and may be regarded as the archetype of modern petrochemical units.

In 1877, Ernest Solvay was granted a U. S. Patent for a tray column for ammonia distillation and the same and subsequent years saw developments of this theme for oil and spirits.

The quad mono cable, or QMC funitel, was invented by Mr. Kunczynski ( US Patent 4, 848, 241 ).

On March 10, 1925 Andrew Prader of Spokane, Washington was granted a United States Patent, number 1, 528, 848 for certain new and useful improvements for Acetylene Lamps.

Patent drawing for R. J. Gatling's Battery Gun, 9 May 1865.

A patent application for IDEA was first filed in Switzerland ( CH A 1690 / 90 ) on May 18, 1990, then an international patent application was filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on May 16, 1991.

Patent drawing for Edison's phonograph, May 18, 1880

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

* US Patent 6, 420, Improvement in electric telegraphs, May 1, 1849

The most visible accomplishment so far is the recognition by the Patent Co-operation Treaty ( PCT ) of the innovative character and industrial applicability of the UNL, which was obtained in May 2002 through the World Intellectual Property Organisation ( WIPO ).

electric unit designed around 1870 by Gustave Trouvé, and patented in May 1880 ( Patent N ° 136, 560 ).

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.

: The present hereditary Order of Baronets in England dates from 22 May 1611 when it was erected by James I who granted the first Letters Patent to 200 gentlemen of good birth with an income of at least £ 1000 a year.

On 1 May 1555, Sir Thomas White, lately Lord Mayor of London, obtained a Royal Patent of Foundation to create an eleemosynary institution for the education of students within the University of Oxford.

Although George VI's accession allocution had already declared that his first act was to create his elder brother Duke of Windsor, and that he willed his brother to be styled His Royal Highness ( HRH ) the Duke of Windsor, Letters Patent were issued in 1937 to formalise the creation of the Dukedom, and further Letters Patent were issued in May of that year to regulate the Duke's right to the attribute of Royal Highness – although the pretext of the Letters Patent was the confirmation of the style of Royal Highness upon the Duke, its actual purpose was to restrict the title to the Duke alone, so as to exclude any future wife from sharing in it.

He was presumably cast by Vanbrugh as Tom Fashion, Lord Foppington's clever younger brother ( Holland ), and it was a blow to the Patent Company when he was killed in a tavern brawl ( more glamorously referred to as a " duel " in older sources ) in May.

Starting May 30, 2004, the US Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) Trademark Electronic Business Center's TDR ( Text Document Retrieval ) online record showed a USPTO " Office Action " on application # 78319880, summarily refusing registration on grounds that the proposed mark " merely describes the subject matter and nature of the applicant's goods and / or services ", and also because publishing a journal is not per se a " service " within the meaning of the term in trademark law ( SSC having not provided descriptive evidence or arguments to counter that presumption ).

Subsequent Patent Office search and patent application for letters patent was completed in May 1977.

However, such titles did not become official until 26 May 2011, when Letters Patent to that effect, were signed and recorded, in the Crown Office on the Roll of the Peerage.

The Game Genie is covered by US Patent # 5112051, " Interfacing device for a computer games system ", filed May 30, 1990.

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.