In 1787 patent has been awarded to Oliver Evans for a grain elevator. The grain elevator is used to hoist grain from the lower floor to the upper loft of the mill. This patent got a patent term extension in 1808 for the first time.
Copyright refers to literary and artistic works. Copyright generally vested in novels, poems, plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs, etc…
In French moral rights are given were given to authors. In 1614 the American system reflects a beginning of copyright law over a statute of Massachusetts. In 1710 the Copyright law gave birth by protecting the book sellers from writing on Statue of Anna.
In 1300 water millers from north asked for special privileges in return for useful creations (mines).
In 1323 German milling engineer promised to build grain mills to satisfy the storage needs and got the special privelege of about 80 ducats for the construction of model mill.
Finally the first patent was granted on 1409 to a German to exploit an ore mine and the right to use the required water and timber for the operation.
In 1474 the first law providing for the grant of exclusive rights for limited periods to the makers of inventions in general as the deliberate act of economic policy.
In 1624 Monopoly rights were given to the selling playing cards .
The French patent system was developed to systemaize the grant of privileges and divided into two kinds of systems: Registration system and examination system.
In1791 of French government used a different approach of patent law: all new discoveries are the property of the author, to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery for 5, 10 or 15 years.
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The terms filing date and priority date are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. The filing date is the date when a patent application is first filed at a patent office. The priority date, sometimes called the “effective filing date”, is the date used to establish the novelty and/or obviousness of a particular invention relative to other art.
The priority date may be earlier than the actual filing date of an application. If an application claims priority to an earlier parent application, then its priority date may be the same as the parent.
There are a number of situations where a patent application may claim priority to an earlier application. These include:
* Continuation applications (including continuations, divisionals, and CIPs). A patent application may claim priority to an earlier filed parent application. When this occurs, the priority date of the new application is usually the same as the priority date of the parent application.
* Domestic applications based on foreign or international filings. If a patent application is first filed in a foreign country, or as an international (PCT) application, and then filed domestically (usually within a year the foreign or international filing), then the application that is filed domestically may claim the filing date of the application in the foreign country as its priority date.
* Patent filings based on US provisional patent applications. In the US, an applicant may file a provisional patent application, and then file a full-length application within one year. In this case, the priority date for the full-length application is the date of the provisional application filing.
In many cases, a patent application claims priority to a series of applications. For example, a continuation application may claim priority to a parent utility application, which claims priority to a US provisional application. The new application may then claim priority to the first filed application in the series, which in this case, is the provisional application.
If a patent application is an original, non-provisional patent application, not a continuation application, and not previously filed in another country, its filing date is usually the same as its priority date.
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Comparison between the USPTO search and the Google search of the number of documents that show up for each year in a ten year period for the use of the word “Internet”:1995
USPTO - 84 patents
Google - 124 patents
1996
USPTO - 217 patents
Google - 246 patents
1997
USPTO - 419 patents
Google - 460 patents
1998
USPTO - 1,740 patents
Google - 467 patents
1999
USPTO - 3,389 patents
Google - 416 patents
2000
USPTO - 5,055 patents
Google - 537 patents
2001
USPTO - 6,905 patents
Google - 614 patents
2002
USPTO - 8,810 patents
Google - 651 patents
2003
USPTO - 11,031 patents
Google - 667 patents
2004
USPTO - 13,800 patents
Google - 732 patents
2005
USPTO - 14,368 patents
Google - 740 patents