US Patent Numbers
US Patent numbers were issued since 1836. The very first issued was simply the number 1. In some European countries particularly in England and Italy, patents have been granted since the 1600s. The United States began granting patents in 1790. The first Patent Act came out and was signed into effect by George Washington on April 10, 1790. Three and a half months later, on July 31, 1790, the first U.S. patent for a Method of Making Pot Ash Useful in Soap Production was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia. But it was only in 1836 that US patent numbers appear. Obviously, US Patent Number 1 was not issued to the very first invention. The first US patent numbers was issued to Senator John Ruggles as the inventor of a locomotive steam engine. By 1871, over 100,000 US Patent numbers had been issued.
The US Patent Full Text Database includes all US patent numbers issued since 1790. The database is structured in two segments, 1976-present and 1790-1975, that must be searched separately.
* Patent from January 1976-present , including all bibliographic data: inventor's name, patent's title, assignee's name, abstract, full description of the invention and the claims
* Because the 1790- December 1975 patents can only be searched on the US patent numbers and/or current U.S. patent classification, you must either know particular patents to search, or identify patent classification numbers to search.
Searching by US Patent Numbers
The US Patent Numbers Search Page allows you to search for patents from 1976-present by their number.
To use the US patent numbers search page:
* Type the US patent numbers or number into the box. If you include more than one number, they should be separated by a space. It is not necessary to include commas or to capitalize the prefix.
* Anything you enter into the US patent numbers search box that is not a patent number (other terms, operators like 'OR' or 'AND') will be ignored. The search will be conducted only on entries you make that are recognized as US patent numbers.
* Click the Search button. The database will be searched for all the US patent numbers you provide, and a list of the documents matching your query will be returned, with the most recent ones first.
The U.S. issues US patent numbers only for granted patents. When you see US patent numbers then it is for granted patents.
Patents
Patents
... manufactured item. Design patents cover only how something looks, not how it works. A design patent lasts for 14 years from the date it is issued. Plant patents cover asexually reproduced plants. Fruit trees and other flowering plants are the most common subjects for plant patents. United States Patents ...
... the filing date of the inventor's patent application, patented or published anywhere in the world or in public use or on sale in the US as a result of the acts of the inventor or others. This effective one-year grace period for such acts of the inventor is unique to the US patent laws; in foreign countries, ...
... individuals, company's and even countries that otherwise would have been at disadvantage. Since for a particular specified period the rights are completely exclusives so these inventors can use it for business purpose and can make fortunes. Today each nation has there own patent office which is responsible ...
... (1) Utility patents, usually referred to as "patents" without any further qualification, (2) Design patents which cover the ornamental appearance of various products, (3) Plant patents which cover asexually reproduced varieties of plants, e.g. hybrid roses, fruit trees bearing new types of fruit, etc., ...
37 CFR And Consolidated Patent Rules
... example, Trademark Rule 2.56 is Rule 56 in Part 2 of Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations. In the Code of Federal Regulations itself, and in material published in the Federal Register, the rules are identified by the term "sections." Thus, section 2.56 in 37 CFR and consolidated patent rules is ...