• A patent engineer or patent scientist is a patent professional who is typically involved in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. The terms are...
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  • patent office. Patent examiners review patent applications to determine whether the invention(s) claimed in each of them should be granted a patent or...
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  • procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents. The term "patent attorney" is used differently...
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    A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited...
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  • A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary...
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  • described as a 'founder' in his 1836 patent, and an 'ironfounder' in his 1838 patent, and later as an engineer and gas engineer, working in Brighton, UK. He worked...
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    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark...
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    German patent was found by patent engineer Halvard Foss of The Norwegian Industrial Property Office (Patentstyret) while looking for patents granted...
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    aerospace engineer and inventor, currently working for the United States Space Force. He formerly worked at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River. His patent applications...
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    Carl Benz (category German mechanical engineers)
    1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical modern...
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  • (1889–1983), Norwegian pair skater Alfred Jørgen Bryn (1862–1937), Norwegian patent engineer Halfdan Bryn (1864–1933), Norwegian physical anthropologist Olaf Bryn...
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    Alfred Jørgen Bryn (category Engineers from Trondheim)
    Alfred Jørgen Bryn (29 May 1862 – 3 August 1937) was a Norwegian patent engineer. Bryn was born in Trondheim as the son of Thomas Bryn and Kristine Emilie...
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  • on the river in France. The same year, the Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built and patented a hydrogen and oxygen-powered internal-combustion...
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  • This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...
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    Author, Engineer". USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Retrieved June 13, 2019. "Appreciations and photos – Neil Siegel, Ph.D." "US Patent for Ultra-low...
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    Víctor A. Carreño (born 1956) is a NASA aerospace engineer and aerospace technologist. He holds the patent for the Single Frequency Multitransmitter Telemetry...
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    pursuing a patent on Watt's invention. Strapped for resources, Watt was forced to take up employment—first as a surveyor, then as a civil engineer—for 8 years...
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    Wade-Dahl-Till (WDT) valve is a cerebral shunt developed in 1962 by hydraulic engineer Stanley Wade, author Roald Dahl, and neurosurgeon Kenneth Till. In 1960...
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  • Patent Shaft, formerly The Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, established in 1840, was a steel=making company that operated large steelworks situated...
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    Elijah McCoy (category Engineers from Michigan)
    United States Patent and Trademark Office named its first regional office, in Detroit, Michigan, the "Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional Patent Office". Elijah...
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  • Alf Bonnevie Bryn (category 20th-century Norwegian engineers)
    Bonnevie Bryn (26 August 1889 – 12 September 1949) was a Norwegian patent engineer, mountaineer, golf player, novelist and non-fiction writer. Bryn was...
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    – 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine...
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  • by a scientist or engineer for use by a company's patent department, or by an external patent attorney, to determine whether patent protection should...
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    Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by...
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  • referred to as the UK IPO) is, since 2 April 2007, the operating name of The Patent Office. It is the official government body responsible for intellectual...
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    of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...
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  • The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented...
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  • Jack Kilby (category Engineers from Missouri)
    Clair Kilby (8 November 1923 - 20 June 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the...
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    Bernhard Caesar Einstein (category 20th-century American engineers)
    worked as an engineer at several companies and organizations, including Texas Instruments and Litton Industries, receiving numerous patents in electronics...
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  • Guillaume (born 1888) was an agricultural engineer who filed a French patent for a turbojet engine in 1921. The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an...
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