* and ( previously ), defining the abstract-related requirements in a European patent application

Valensi's patent application described:

Alfred Nobel's 1864 patent application for nitroglycerin.

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

Since there was no apparent practical use for such a device at the time, the patent application was most likely simply a precaution in case someone else did find a use for the so-called Edison effect.

In 1975, Xerox filed a patent application listing Metcalfe, David Boggs, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson as inventors.

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.

In his patent application of 6 February 1959, Kilby described his new device as “ a body of semiconductor material ... wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated .” The first customer for the new invention was the US Air Force.

The first insurance patent application to be posted was US2009005522 “ Risk assessment company ”.

This patent application describes a method for increasing the ease of changing insurance companies.

* 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

Brewster later believed he would make money from this popular invention ; however, a fault in his patent application allowed others to copy his invention.

In 1958, Bell Labs filed a patent application for their proposed optical maser ; and Schawlow and Townes submitted a manuscript of their theoretical calculations to the Physical Review, published that year in Volume 112, Issue No. 6.

On September 11, 1941 Bockmühl and Ehrhart filed an application for a patent for a synthetic substance they called Hoechst 10820 or polamidon ( a name still in regular use in Germany ) and whose structure had only slight relation to morphine or the opiate alkaloids ( Bockmühl and Ehrhart, 1949 ).

Dr. Schrader was summoned to the Wehrmacht chemical lab in Berlin to give a demonstration, after which Schrader's patent application and all related research was classified.

Typically, however, a patent application must include one or more claims defining the invention which must meet the relevant patentability requirements such as novelty and non-obviousness.

An international patent application was filed, and published in 1992 under WO number WO9219458, for two new punctuation marks: the “ question comma ” and the “ exclamation comma ”.

John Patch, a mariner in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia developed a two-bladed, fan-shaped propeller in 1832 and publicly demonstrated it in 1833, propelling a row boat across Yarmouth Harbour and a small coastal schooner at Saint John, New Brunswick, but his patent application in the United States was rejected until 1849 because he was not an American citizen.

With the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé he built an early writing machine for which a patent application was filed in October 1867.

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

Kawasaki presented also in 1972 its Kawasaki X99 RCE prototype ( US patent N 3848574 ), both Yamaha and Kawasaki claimed having solved all problems previously found in Wankel RCEs, but none entered the stage of production.

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 ".

Atanasoff agreed to assist the attorney, but IBM ultimately entered a patent-sharing agreement with Sperry Rand, the owners of the Eckert-Mauchly memory patent, and the case was dropped.

On February 24, 1839, the patent behind number 1089 officially entered validity, and called “ Crane-Excavator for Excavating and Removing Earth ”.

Horsley was very proud of the device and claimed to have entered a patent on it.

Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement.

Prince Leopold entered the Bavarian Army at the age of 15, and received his patent as a lieutenant dated 28 November 1861.

Beginning in 1962, Pilkington entered into patent and know-how license agreements with all of its principal competitors.

It entered into force on August 1, 1980 and led to a significant harmonization of patent laws across European countries.

After buying out Hawkins ' patent rights, Mordan entered into a business partnership with Gabriel Riddle from 1823 to 1837.

This formation entered into by contractual indenture on 5 August 1846, provided in part for purchasing the full remaining patent interest and stock held by the telegraph's other co-inventor Charles Wheatstone.

Hwang entered into a partnership with RNL Bio's competitor, BioArts International, which caused an on-going legal battle into who owns the patent rights.

One manufacturer who held an allegedly basic patent said: `` I would readily put over $50,000 into the manufacture of the device, but it is so easy to make that we would enter immediately into a prolonged ordeal of patent litigation which would eat up all our profits ''.

`` 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 ''.

The United States federal courts are divided into twelve regional circuits, each with a circuit court of appeals ( plus a thirteenth, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears appeals in patent cases and cases against the federal government, without geographic limitation ).

The crystal detector was developed into a practical device for wireless telegraphy by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, who invented a silicon crystal detector in 1903 and received a patent for it on November 20, 1906.

Under the George W. Bush administration ( 2001 – 2009 ), patent extension legislation that allowed Bayer AG, as well as other drug companies, a six-month patent extension for testing their products for safety in children was signed into law.

The patent encompassed 14 versions of the fundamental design, split into two categories of seven instruments each and ranging from sopranino to contrabass.

An example of this would be that if a person is electrocuted by a wiring defect incorporated into a structure in, say, 1990, a state law may allow his heirs to sue only before 1997 in the case of an open ( patent ) defect, or before 2000 in the case of a hidden defect.

In 1853 the case of the patent came before the U. S. Supreme Court where, after very lengthy investigation, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Morse had been the first to combine the battery, electromagnetism, the electromagnet and the correct battery configuration into a workable practical telegraph.

In 2012, the GPHI filed lawsuit against Apple, Sony, HTC Corp, LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Research in Motion Ltd. for allegedly violating patent relating to a computer graphics process that turns text and images into pixels to be displayed on screens.

The turbocharger was invented by Swiss engineer Alfred Büchi ( 1879-1959 ), the head of diesel engine research at Gebruder Sulzer engine manufacturing company in Winterhur, who received a patent in 1905 for using a compressor driven by exhaust gasses to force air into a diesel engine to increase power output but it took another 20 years for the idea to come to fruition.

The new company combined the best features of both their machines into a new typewheel printer for which Kleinschmidt, Howard Krum, and Sterling Morton jointly obtained a patent.

* July 9 – Charles Hall files a patent for his process of turning aluminium oxide into molten aluminium.

* The Republic of Venice enacts a decree that new and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them, the first modern patent system.

Pupin's 1894 patent " loads " the line with capacitors rather than inductors, a scheme that has been criticised as being theoretically flawed and never put into practice.

Lawsuits regarding the antenna patent which the UI Foundation lost, evolved into the Blonder-Tongue Doctrine.

This was accommodated by Perthe's Almanach de Gotha ( which categorised princely families by rank until it ceased publication after 1944 ) by inserting the offspring of such marriages in the third section of the almanac under entries denoted by a symbol ( a dot within a circle ) that " signifies some princely houses which, possessing no specific princely patent, have passed from the first part, A, or from the second part into the third part in virtue of special agreements.

In 1654 Johan de Hulter, owner of 20 % of the Killian van Rensselaer Company was granted a patent, together with the patents of Christoffel Davids, and Jacob Jansen Stoll, this supplies evidence of the first permanent settlement, that grows into the village of Wiltwijck, later: Kingston.

During years after World War II had ended, De Corlieu spent time and efforts struggling into civil procedures, demanding others for patent infringement.

In the United States the length of this temporary monopoly is 20 years from the date the application for patent was filed, though the monopoly does not actually begin until the application has matured into a patent.