Patent Office, U.S.

Defensive Publ. U.S. Patent Office 658 325 Chem. Abstr., 71, 22918. 

To prove that a particular design of a perpetual motion machine will not work can be vei y time consuming, and the predictable negative result has never been worth the effort. Therefore, the U.S. Patent Office has a policy to not examine applications covering perpetual motion machines unless the applicant furnishes a working model. 

In 1790 the formal U.S. Patent system was founded. Since that time the U.S. Patent Office has undergone numerous changes that have generally improved legal protection for intellectual property owned by individual citizens. 

Any inventor may apply for a patent regardless of age, sex, or citizenship. Once a U.S. Patent has been granted most other countries allow the inventor up to one year to submit a patent application for a foreign patent. The exception is Japan which requires nearly immediate submittal of a patent application to the Japanese patent office at nearly the same time the inventor is submitting to the U.S. Patent office. 

It is important to begin producing this additive as soon as possible. This is because die discovery of something new is frequently made by two or more independent investigators at about the same time, and the first producer sets the standards and gets the markets. In 1969 four chemical companies Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), DuPont, Phillips Petroleum, and Montecatini-Edison, were all claiming to be the inventor of polypropylene. At that time, the U.S. Patent Office had still not decided who would get the U.S. patent, even though the work had been done over 10 years before.5 Finally in December 1971 Montecatini-Edison received the patent. 

SAMMS has been evaluated in bench-scale and pilot-scale smdies. In 1997, Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle) applied for a patent on SAMMS with the U.S. Patent Office. SAMMS is not commercially available. 

Antimicrobial Compound [Eupolauridine] and Compositions Particularly Effective against Candida albicans. U.S. Patent Office Ser. No. 07/218,986 issued October, 1990. 

U.S. Patent Office(1974). Reclamation of Hydrocarbon ContaminatedGround Waters. Raymond, R.L. US Patent No. 3846290. 

U.S. Patent Office (1990). Method For Stimulating Biodegradation of Halogenated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons. Nelson, M.J.K. Bourguin, A. US Patent No. 4925 802. 

Clainis/U,S. piilcni abstracts patents issued by the U,S. Patent Office chemical patent records from 1950 to present... 

As the patent system harmonizes and more countries recognize the importance of patenting intellectual property, the value of patents grows. This leads to more people and companies seeking patents for even the most abstruse and maybe bizarre inventions. Patents issued by the U.S. Patent Office can be viewed in some large libraries or on the Web at www.uspto.gov. The following patents indicate there are no limits to human imagination ... 

We also investigated the effect of using highly purified HABIs in photopolymerization, and saw improvements the U.S. Patent Office, however, did not reward us with a patent. 

Although at least five other pharmaceutical companies claimed priority of the invention (Merck, Squibb, Pfizer, Upjohn and Syntex), none was able to convince the U.S. Patent Office. A patent was finally issued to Schering Corp. in 1964 (10 years after the initial filing). To this day, prednisone and prednisolone remain the standard of systemic corticosteroid therapy throughout the world. 

J.O.P.S. = Journal of the Pate it Office Society, U.S. Patent Office... 

P.O. Bd. Interfer. = U.S. Patent Office Board of Interferences Sup. Ct. = U.S. Supreme Court Supra = above... 

The various documents an inventor must sign when he files an application for a patent are explained. Included are the documents required by the Patent Office before an application is accepted and those which may be necessary during the subsequent prosecution of the application in the U. S. Patent Office. Among others, the oath, power of attorney, petition, preliminary statement, and affidavits are discussed specifically. 

Brinkerhoff, 24 Manuscript Decisions 349. (Available in U.S. Patent Office files only.)... 

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