* 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. 126, 848 ( May 14, 1872 ): Steinway invented the Duplex Scale on the principle of enabling the freely oscillating parts of the string, directly in front of and behind the segment of the string actually struck, also to resound.

* 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.

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* Patent 7, 127, 613-Secured peer-to-peer network data exchange

* Moore R S, " Plastic Optical Element Having Refractive Index Gradient ," U. S. Patent 3, 718, 383 ( Feb. 1973 ).