* International Searching Authority, a patent office performing prior art searches during the prosecution of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty

Inventors can now have their insurance US patent applications reviewed by the public in the Peer to Patent program.

* 1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.

In the 8th edition of the International Patent Classification ( IPC ), which entered into force on January 1, 2006, a special subclass has been created for patent applications and patents related to inventions in the domain of combinatorial chemistry: " C40B ".

Patent applications for a number of recumbent designs exist in the late years of the 19th century, and there were discussions in the cycling press of the relative merits of different layouts.

The USPTO is also a Receiving Office, an International Searching Authority and an International Preliminary Examination Authority for international patent applications filed in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

The judgement in CFPH's applications was the first in a flurry of UK court cases since 2005 involving re-consideration by the High Court of patent applications refused by the UK Patent Office.

Within the European Patent Office, examiners are in charge of studying European patent applications, filed by applicants, in order to decide whether to grant a patent for an invention.

Patent leather and poromerics are used in applications where an eye-catching glossy appearance is the most important consideration.

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.

Patent applications on the OncoMouse were filed back in the mid-1980s in numerous countries such as in the United States, in Canada, in Europe through the European Patent Office ( EPO ) and in Japan.

* Rules set out procedures, for example rules governing court procedures, or the way in which the Patent Office deals with applications.

Claims have been necessary parts of U. S. patent applications since the enactment of the Patent Act of 1836.

Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether the claimed invention should be granted a patent.

While a patent examiner in the European Patent Office would handle less than seven patent applications per month and a USPTO examiner would handle eight applications per month, an Indian examiner reportedly handles at least 20 applications a month.

Patent examiners at the European Patent Office ( EPO ) carry out examination and opposition procedures for patent applications originating anywhere in the world and seeking protection in any of the member states of the European Patent Organisation.

There are four patent applications published in the United States Patent and Trademark Office that involve ejabberd:

United Kingdom patents can be reviewed by way of a non-binding opinion issued by the Patent Office, or by formal applications for revocation before the Patent Office or the Court.

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.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

Thomson Jay Hudson was Chief Examiner of the US Patent Office and Psychical researcher, known for his three laws of psychic phenomena, which were first published in 1893.

British arrangements for the government of South Georgia were first established under the 1843 British Letters Patent.

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.

On 12 January 1938, by Letters Patent, the islands were declared a dependency of Saint Helena.

However, records with the United States Patent and Trademark Office show that the rights to the Writers of the Future name were transferred from the L. Ron Hubbard estate (" Family Trust-B ") to the Church of Spiritual Technology in 1989, and under the 1993 IRS closing agreement with the Church of Scientology, the L. Ron Hubbard estate became part of the Church of Spiritual Technology, a " Scientology-related entity ".

Avant garde composer George Antheil and Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr were granted US Patent 2, 292, 387 on August 11, 1942 for their Secret Communication System that details an early version of Frequency Hopping.

If it were used by Princess Elizabeth, it would have degraded her right as a Princess of the United Kingdom unless Letters Patent or Legislation were introduced to the contrary.

In return, ImClone were also granted a worldwide license to technology covered by the 866 Patent, and agreed to pay a small royalty on Erbitux sales to Yeda.

In the first round of reexamination, some claims in all four patents were rejected by the Patent Office in four separate rulings dating from February through July 2007.

In 1955, Russell Rogers and Leonard D ' Andrea of Homestead Park, Pennsylvania applied for, and in 1959 were granted, U. S. Patent # 2, 883, 195 for the hexahexaflexagon, under the title " Changeable Amusement Devices and the Like.

On Dartmoor there were several commercial distillation plants formed and run by the British Patent Naphtha Company in 1844.

On 15 June 1839 new Letters Patent were issued to expand the territory of New South Wales to include the entire territory of New Zealand, from latitude 34 ° South to 47 ° 10 ’ South, and from longitude 166 ° 5 ’ East to 179 ° East.

This land and another patent known as the Minisink Patent were what is now most of Orange and Sullivan Counties.

The founding Letters Patent were amended by succeeding monarchs on a number of occasions, such as by James I ( 1613 ) and most notably by Charles I ( who established the Board-then the Provost and seven senior Fellows-and reduced the panel of Visitors in size ) and supplemented as late as the reign of Queen Victoria ( and later still amended by the Oireachtas in 2000 ).

University and College in The Charters and Letters Patent Amendment Bill which later became law but many of the College contributions to this were unclear or not comprehensive, possibly because it concerned an internal dispute within College as to outside interference and also as misconduct by College Authorities in overseeing voting which led to a visitors enquiry which in turn found problems with the voting procedures and ordered a repeat ballot.

The original New York Dolls were captured in a live set, recorded at the Little Hippodrome and released by Fan Club records in 1982 as Red Patent Leather.

The spread of education, the secularization of church lands, the reduction of the religious orders and the clergy in general to complete submission to the lay state, the issue of the Patent of Tolerance ( 1781 ) providing limited guarantee of freedom of worship, the promotion of unity by the compulsory use of the German language ( replacing Latin or in some instances local languages )— everything which from the point of view of 18th century philosophy, the Age of Enlightenment, appeared " reasonable "— were undertaken at once.

The navigation works on the Avon were originally authorised by an Order in Council and Letters Patent of Charles I in 1635, which named William Sandys as the grantee, with powers to improve both this river and the River Teme.

In 1883, the contents of the Patent Office Museum were transferred to the South Kensington Museum.

The Patent rolls record letters that were issued in " patent ", or openly and not sealed, and the Close rolls record letters issued sealed, or letters close.

*, defining the requirements regarding the abstract in an international application filed under Patent Cooperation Treaty ( PCT )

About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.

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 royalties to the MPPC ended in September 1913 with the expiration of the last of the patents filed in the mid-1890s at the dawn of commercial film production and exhibition.

In 2009, Mike Richard John Smith filed a Canadian Patent application ( Canadian Patent number: 2675044 ) indicating the screw type propeller is inefficient due to the screw type blade orientation of the propeller which when in operation for forward movement substantially moves the fluid ( for a boat the fluid is water ) sidewardly, rotationally, and rearwardly wherein moving the fluid sidewardly does not move the boat forward, thus contibuting to the inefficiency of the screw type propeller.

The world's first patent for an underwater echo ranging device was filed at the British Patent Office by English meteorologist Lewis Richardson a month after the sinking of the Titanic, and a German physicist Alexander Behm obtained a patent for an echo sounder in 1913.

In October, Edison filed a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U. S. Patent Office outlining his plans for the device.

* German patent search system-look for Patent DE 932410 filed March 21, 1944

It was initially filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) in 2005 in the categories of printed materials, clothing, electronic commerce, and entertainment services based on first commercial in 1978.

On September 30, 1987, Foster filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to patent his invented sport.

As a result of these efforts in 1999 the first Digital Location Based Service Patent was filed in the US and ultimately issued after nine ( 9 ) office actions in March of 2002.

He filed US Patent 3131894 on January 10, 1963.

U. S. Patent 3, 138, 743 for " Miniaturized Electronic Circuits ", the first integrated circuit, was filed on February 6, 1959.

* U. S. Patent 3, 138, 743 Miniaturized Electronic Circuits, filed February 6, 1959, issued June, 1964

* U. S. Patent 3, 819, 921 Miniature Electronic Calculator, originally filed September 1967, issued June 1974

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

On August 13, 1931, Duston filed USPTO Patent Application # 556, 743 for " Method Of And Apparatus For Electrically Recording And Reproducing Sound And Other Vibrations ", and which was renewed in 1934.

A summary of the developments concerning patentability of computer programs under the European Patent Convention is given in ( see G 3 / 08 ) as a response of the Enlarged Board of Appeal to questions filed by the President of the European Patent Office according to Art.