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Article: Patent and Trademark Office: Front Matter
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Overview of Patent and Trademark Office
The American patent system has encouraged the genius of thousands
of inventors
for over 200 years by systematically registering and protecting inventions.
Jefferson and Lincoln said it well:
Thomas Jefferson: "The issue of patents for new discoveries has given
a
spring to invention beyond my conception."
Abraham Lincoln: "The Patent System added the fuel of interest to
the fire of
genius."
Front Matter
Foreword
In April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the bill
which laid
the foundations of the modern American patent system. Three years
earlier, at
Philadelphia, the Constitutional ...