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United States Patent number 1
- xbryanx 16y agoJust to be clear this isn't the first US patent, just the one assigned #1 in the current numbering system (I think?). More info on the "first" US Patent. http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-33.jsp http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-33.jsp
- zedwill 16y agoAccording to wikipedia there were other almost ~10k patents before, but they were destroyed in a fire and are known as X-Patents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Patents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Patents
- riemannzeta 16y agoGoogle has these too http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw
- erydo 16y agoI don't mean to add to the noise floor, but is there a reason you generated a bit.ly link for this? This isn't twitter with particularly restrictive character constraints; all it serves is obfuscation as far as I can tell. I'm genuinely curious what the reasoning is.
- carussell 16y agoNon-bitly: http://google.com/patents/about?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ http://google.com/patents/about?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ
- joubert 16y agoLike the line numbers in the margin.
- ComputerGuru 16y agoIt's that way in almost all patents, I think. It may be a style requirement.
- Vivtek 16y agoIt's so when your patent is disputed, you can cite things like "In column 9, lines 34-36 of document E2, it is disclosed that..." (I'm translating just such a dispute claim now. For a tampon applicator. I'd rather be learning about railroads.)
- nkassis 16y agoMan, the beginning of the patent makes this sound like the greatest invention ever. Let trains brave mud,rain,ice and anything. Except I think the US postal service has some prior art to the whole mud,rain and ice thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service_creed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service_cr...
- jganetsk 16y agoIt appears that Herodotus has prior art on that.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoI like James Ernest's version better, where a time machine gets patent #1. http://www.cheapass.com/products/boardgames/cag034.html http://www.cheapass.com/products/boardgames/cag034.html
- pavel_lishin 16y agoThis looks like a ton of fun.
- raimondious 16y agoHow long for OCR to become usable for something like this? Google's OCR transforms the readable "Locomotive Steam-Engine for Rail and Other Roads" to "BAIL AND OTHER ROADS"
- tybris 16y agoSo far? About 3 decades.
- raimondious 16y agoAccording to Wikipedia, it's been much much longer than that, but this is my point.
- edge17 16y agolooks way more readable than modern patents. Almost like it wasn't written by a lawyer. Only 4 pages.
- riemannzeta 16y agoThe number system came later. X series gives the earliest patents, including the first issued: X1 http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw
- Rexxar 16y agoPlease don't use URL shorteners.
- riemannzeta 16y agoSorry. Here's the link: http://www.google.com/patents?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ That's General Washington's signature in the middle, and Edmund Randolph's (first Attorney General) on the bottom. The cabinet was the PTO in 1790.
- jheriko 16y agoI see... patents have always been ridiculous. Unsurprising.