16 May 1876 Thomas Edison files first patent application for acoustic telegraphy for which U.S. patent 182,996 was granted October 10, 1876.

He received over 100 patents during his lifetime.

But the patent for underwater flight Karen and I, we were looking at it, some business partners wanted us to patent it we weren t sure about that.

He invented and was issued a patent on this press in 1795.

Ayrton's 1884 patent was the first of many from 1884 until her death, Hertha registered 26 patents five on mathematical dividers, 13 on arc lamps and electrodes, the rest on the propulsion of air.

Rather than a patent on life, the companies say, they are patenting something more like a chemical.

He received his UK patent (1344259) on January 16, 1974.

A patent for this discovery was issued in December 1925.

He filed for a US patent on 1 April 1919, which was issued in July 1922 as patent no.

In December 1931 he submitted a patent including the idea, and in 1933 this became UK patent number 394,325.

It just seems wrong to try and patent the freedom for underwater flight.

Monsanto brought an action against Schmeiser for patent infringement.

He also developed and patented a method of perforating jewels for use in clocks.

But luckily, I found a patent online for industrial furnaces that use microwaves, and at 30 minutes at full power, and I was able to finish off the process.

By the next month, Bell Labs' patent attorneys started to work on the patent applications.

Whitney applied for a patent on October 28, 1793 the patent was granted on March 14, 1794, but was not validated until 1807.

He applied for a patent on the pencil on October 10, 1913 and was granted US patent 1,130,741 on March 9, 1915.

In the same time he obtained a patent in France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States.

In 1892 he patented an electric cutting machine that facilitated the production of crystal glass.

The invention was never patented, as no such system existed in Switzerland at the time.

Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office.

On October 8, 1883, the US patent office ruled that Edison's patent was based on the work of William Sawyer and was therefore invalid.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

WDC was founded in 1978 by co holder of the MOS Technology 6502 patent, Bill Mensch, himself a former MOS Technology employee.

When we found the structure of DNA, I gave my first talk at Cold Spring Harbor. The physicist, Leo Szilard, he looked at me and said, Are you going to patent this?

It's a 28 page software patent, but I will summarize what it covers. Spoiler alert Unlocking your phone by sliding an icon with your finger.

Like Pierre Curie, Röntgen refused to take out patents related to his discovery, as he wanted mankind as a whole to benefit from practical applications of the same (personal statement).

In 1923, Harrison of the Western Electric Company filed a patent for a phonograph in which the mechanical design was entirely represented as an electrical circuit.

In 1884 Ayrton patented a line divider, an engineering drawing instrument for dividing a line into any number of equal parts and for enlarging and reducing figures.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court in the Diamond v. Chakrabarty case ruled that genetically altered life could be patented.

Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost many profits in legal battles over patent infringement for the cotton gin.

James Watt began experimenting with steam in 1763, got a patent in 1769, and began commercial production in 1775.

Both problems were solved by Bell Labs employee Amos Joel who, in 1970 applied for a patent for a mobile communications system.

Fast forward four years later, after having written a 40 page business plan on the cell phone, having written my patent on the cell phone, I'm the youngest patent holder in the country, and I can't say any more than that.

While some pharmacologists dedicate their lives to searching for the cure for cancer, regardless of any monetary incentives, many are driven by the hope of securing a lucrative patent.

Starting in January 1855 he began working on a way to produce steel in the massive quantities required for artillery and by October he filed his first patent related to the Bessemer process.

In 1939 1941 Arkhip Lyul'ka elaborated the design for the World's first turbofan engine, and acquired a patent for this new invention on April 22, 1941.

In many developed countries, the use of moissanite in jewelry has been patented these patents expire in 2015 for the US, and 2016 in other countries.

Aspartame is currently the most popular artificial sweetener in the U.S. food industry, as the price has dropped significantly since the Monsanto Company patent expired in 1992.

His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.

In Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), Harvard applied for a patent on an invention called transgenic animals , being genetically altered animals containing a cancer promoting gene (oncogene).

The majority of the Court held that by collecting, saving and planting seeds containing Monsanto's patented gene and cell, Schmeiser infringed section 42 of the Patent Act.

Patenting life was taken a step further in 1984, when Harvard University successfully applied for a patent on its oncomouse, a laboratory mouse specifically designed to get cancer easily, so that it would be more useful as a research tool.

In the latter year, the American physicist and inventor Edward Samuel Ritchie patented a greatly improved liquid marine compass that was adopted in revised form for general use by the United States Navy, and later purchased by the Royal Navy as well.

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