Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

and General Motors and Du Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided for the purchase by General Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any Du Pont manufactured product, or for the grant of exclusive patent rights, or for a grant by General Motors to Du Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General Motors, or for the maintenance of any joint commercial enterprise by the two companies.

What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??

The suit, as we have seen, came before the courts when patent attorneys, inventors, and laymen were making mounting demands for reforms in the American patent system.

The vast industrial interests caught up in the Selden suit, as well as the complex character of the automotive art, encouraged both sides to exploit `` every possible chance '' for or against the patent, said Parker.

The interchange of shop licenses for a nominal royalty eliminated infringement suits among the members of the A.L.A.M. patent pool ( although it did not protect them against outside actions ) and kept open channels for the cross-fertilization of automotive technology.

It will be recalled that in his summation for the A.L.A.M. before Judge Hough, Fish had condemned patent litigation as the curse of the American industrial community.

Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.

In 1849, he received a patent for a flotation device for the movement of boats in shallow water.

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

Nobel filed his first patent, for a gas meter, in 1857.

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

* 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

The concept of a " picture element " dates to the earliest days of television, for example as " Bildpunkt " ( the German word for pixel, literally ' picture point ') in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow.

His experiments with television ( known as telectroescopía at first ) began in 1931 and led to a patent for the " trichromatic field sequential system " color television in 1940 ,.

By November, Vladimir Zworykin had taken out the first patent for color television.

* November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.

* December 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent ( in the United States ) for " television systems ".

Television historian Albert Abramson calls Nipkow's patent " the master television patent.

* Method of and Means for Transmitting Signals, US patent for Baird's " Noctovision " infrared television system, filed 1927.

* Television Apparatus and the Like, US patent for Baird's colour television system, filed 1929 ( in UK, 1928 ). n

Also in 2001, after acquiring patents from Oracle's interactive television division, nCUBE filed a patent infringement suit against SeaChange claiming that their competitor's video server offering violated its VOD patent on delivery to set-top boxes.

The 1942 patent ( filed in Mexico on August 19, 1940 ) was for a synchronized color filter wheel adapter for monochrome television, similar to the field sequential color receiver demonstrated by Baird in England in July 1939 and by CBS in the United States in August 1940.

* Device for recording television programs, U. S. patent application, 1945.

* Synchronization of camera and television receiver tubes, U. S. patent application, 1946.

An early patent for 3D imaging in cinema and television was granted to physicist Theodor V. Ionescu in 1936.

Rosing had filed his first patent on a television system in 1907, featuring a very early cathode ray tube as a receiver, and a mechanical device as a transmitter.

* December 29-Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent ( in the United States ) for " television systems ".

" As head of television development at Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ), Zworykin submitted a patent application in November 1931, and it was issued in 1935.

In 1928, Tihanyi filed for a patent for a television apparatus where an electron beam scanned the mosaic of a charge storage plate and was deflected into the anode following a V-path.

Guillermo González Camarena developed a field-sequential color disk system in the early 1940s, for which he received the first US patent for color television in 1942.

The patent additionally indicated that guests staying at Disney hotels would be allowed to make early reservations for attractions using their in-room television.

Levin gave the opening programmes a kindly review, but by the fourth day of commercial television he was beginning to baulk: " There has been nothing to get our teeth into apart from three different brands of cake-mix and a patent doughnut ".

`` It is a much easier course to agree to let one another alone so far as ordinary patents are concerned '', said a trade authority, `` than to continue the costly effort of straightening the tangle in the courts or seeking to reform the patent system, which appears to be getting into deeper confusion every day ''.

* 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

In the patent application it is described as an " X-Y position indicator for a display system ".

In July 1939 Mountbatten was granted a patent ( UK Number 508, 956 ) for a system for maintaining a warship in a fixed position relative to another ship.

In particular, the regenerative circuit, which Armstrong patented in 1914 as a " wireless receiving system ," was subsequently patented by Lee De Forest in 1916 ; De Forest then sold the rights to his patent to AT & T.

The Brazilian Franchise Law ( Law No. 8955 of December 15, 1994 ) defines the franchise as a system in which the franchisor licenses the franchisee, for a payment, the right to use a trademark / patent along with the right to distribute products or services on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis.

These were the predecessors of the modern patent and trademark system.

Innovation and invention in 19th century America has been said to be attributed to the development of the patent system.

* 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.

Edison sued to gain control of the patent ; however, after a federal court upheld the validity of the patent in 1907, Edison began negotiation with Biograph in May 1908 to reorganize the Edison licensing system.

More directly, it is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was a royal decree granting exclusive rights to a person, predating the modern patent system.

In 1897, Tesla applied for two key United States radio patents,, first radio system patent, and.

In 1934 the Frenchman Émile Girardeau stated he was building an obstacle-locating radio apparatus " conceived according to the principles stated by Tesla " and obtained a patent for a working system, a part of which was installed on the Normandie liner in 1935.

Zubrin is the co-inventor on a U. S. design patent and a U. S. utility patent on a hybrid rocket / airplane, and on a U. S. utility patent on an oxygen supply system ( see links below ).

The O ' Reilly v. Morse case has become known among patent lawyers because the Supreme Court explicitly denied Morse's claim for any future application of his code system.

Edward Davy demonstrated his telegraph system in Regent's Park in 1837 and was granted a patent on 4 July 1838.

McKee and Ross also applied for and were granted two patents, one in 1984 for a basic adjustable binding system and the other in 1985 for a patent for their adjustable plate type foot strap system.