Sentence examples for first patent from inspiring English sources

The first patent was granted in November , 1967

He received his first patent in 1976.

His first patent was for a novel lathe design.

Congress passed the first Patent Statute in 1790.

Bristol-Myers received its first patent on BuSpar in 1980.

Thomas Jefferson was the first su perintendent of our patent system, and our first patent examiner.

In 1819 M. Petibled of Paris received the first patent for a roller skate.

Thomas Jefferson, the nation's first patent commissioner, questioned whether ideas should be owned at all.

Edison filed his first patent, for an automatic vote-recording machine, in 1868.

His first patent was for a means of extracting bromine from brine.

The way it raised money for its first patent-purchasing fund was equally ambidextrous.