 The responsibility for granting patents is placed upon a Board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General. The Board members have the power to issue a patent, "if they shall deem the invention or discovery sufficiently...  Patent Law Revision: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session ... - Page 334by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights - 1974 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic Jennings Haskin - United States - 1911 - 432 pages
...the Federal Constitution, and the First Congress passed a law creating a patent commission made up of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General. They waited for three months before the first applicant for a patent appeared. Samuel Hopkins had invented... | |
 | Clarence Frank Birdseye - Socialism - 1920 - 392 pages
...right to their . . . discoveries." Congress founded our patent system under an act of 1 So 1790 whereby the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War and the Attorney General were made a board to consider all applications, though the office was attached to the Department of... | |
 | Everett Kimball - Political Science - 1920 - 650 pages
...Sect, viii, clause 8. L_ law was passed in 1 790, and the issuing of patents was intrusted to a board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General. In 1836 radical changes were made, and the system in use at present was initiated,... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 286 pages
...were forbidden to do so by judicial decision. The first Patent Act provided that an examining board, consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General, or any two of them, might grant a patent for fourteen years, if they deemed the invention... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 332 pages
...were forbidden to do so by judicial decision. The first Patent Act provided that an examining board, consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General, or any two of them, might grant a patent for fourteen years, if they deemed the invention... | |
 | Holland Thompson - Biography & Autobiography - 1921 - 296 pages
...were forbidden to do so by judicial decision. The first Patent Act provided that an examining board, consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney-General, or any two of them, might grant a patent for fourteen years, if they deemed the invention... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1922 - 100 pages
...April 10, 1790, it had charge of the patent business. The patents were granted by a board composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General; and the patent issued to Samuel 17 Hopkins July 31, 1790, which was the first one granted, was signed by... | |
 | William Franklin Willoughby - Executive departments - 1923 - 326 pages
...discoveries." By the act of April 10, 1790, authority to grant letters patent was vested jointly in the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General, subject to approval by the President, the patents being recorded in the State Department. By the act... | |
 | Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research - Administrative agencies - 1924 - 148 pages
...enacted in amended form on April 10, 1790 (1 Stat. L., 109). The act constituted a board of three members consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General, and authorized them, or any two of them, to grant patents for any such " useful art, manufacture, machine,... | |
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