the unique number assigned to a patent application when it is filed. The application number includes a two digit series code and a six digit serial number
In the 46 years prior to the Great Fire of 1836, the United States government had issued about 10,000 patents. Most of these could never be revived again, but Congress acted to ...
A property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention ...