Patent Soliciting And Examining

Author : H. Howson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331711469
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Howsons' Patent Offices written by H. Howson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Howsons' Patent Offices: Patent Soliciting and United States Court Practice, With Remarks Concerning Specifications and Claims, Drawings, Official Examination, Appeals, Reissues, Searches and Reports, Court Practice, Interferences, Foreign Patents, Etc This pamphlet is issued at a date when the twenty-sixth year of the existence of our house is nearly completed. Since these offices were established, on a modest scale, in 1853, by the present head of the firm, a great change has taken place in the public estimation of and demand for patents and patent property. In 1853, the number of patents granted for new inventions was 846; in 1878, the number was 12,345. The increase has been continuous with the exception of slight fluctuations during the early years of the war and during the more recent financial depression. It may not be out of place here to remark that this continued increase in the number of patents, has been proportionate to the increase of manufactures and the introduction of new industries. Curiously enough, while a few of our law makers, blind to or ignoring the relation of patents to the progress of the useful arts, have endeavored to legislate against the interests of inventors, foreign countries are gradually adopting patent systems more or less like our own. First, Canada adopted a new patent law as liberal as its former laws were oppressive; more recently, the German Empire, in spite of urgent opposition, established a system resembling our own in many particulars; Spain followed suit; the subject is being agitated in Switzerland and Russia, and even conservative England is likely to adopt more liberal laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.