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Patent Examples: Appendices for White Paper on Business Method Patents

Return to White Paper [examples of patents for business methods] DISCLAIMER: The twenty-eight patents below consist of drawings and text. Drawings are presented in PDF format for all but Patent X2301 which has no drawing. Text is provided in HTML format for all except two patents in Appendix F that could only be presented in PDF because of embedded equations. The text of patents granted from 1972 onward was extracted from the USPTO databases . The text of patents prior to 1972 was generated by OCR (optical character recognition) processing and may contain spelling errors and shifts of superscripted and subscripted characters.
Appendix A   
Patent Text
X2301
Bank Note Printing [NOTE: This is a restored Patent taken from Court Records]
Kneas
April 28, 1815 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
871
Bank Note
Watson
August 3, 1838 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
63889
Hotel-Register
Hawes
April 16, 1857 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
138,891
Revenue Stamps
Hunter
May 13, 1873 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
575,731
Insurable Property Chart
Powers et al.
January 26, 1897 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
853,852
Insurance System
Adams
May 14, 1922 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
1,406,561
Business Form
Howard
February 14, 1922 Jump to top of page
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Patent Text
3,556,563
Booklet and Cards for Use In A Limited Credit System
Scheinberg et al.
July 9, 1969 Jump to top of page
Appendix B   
PDFDrawings
Patent Text
395,781
Art of Compiling Statistics
Hollerith
January 8, 1889 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
395,782
Art of Compiling Statistics
Hollerith
January 8, 1889 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
395,783
Art of Compiling Statistics
Hollerith
January 8, 1889 Jump to top of page
Appendix C   
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
209827
Ticket Printing and Recording-Machine
Moss et al .
November 8, 1904 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
774322
Profit Sharing Sales Counter
Hepfer
November 8, 1904 Jump to top of page
Appendix D  
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2
Patent Text
915090
Cash Register
Fuller
March 16, 1909 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2
Patent Text
920110
Cash Register
Cleal et al.
May 4, 1909 Jump to top of page
Appendix E  
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2
Patent Text
1710691
Combined Sorter and Tabulator
Carroll
April 30, 1929 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2
PDF Drawings set 3
Patent Text
2052444
Bookkeeping Machine
Breitling
August 25, 1936 Jump to top of page
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Patent Text
2126615
Accounting Machine
Campbell
August 9, 1938 Jump to top of page
Appendix F   
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
2594865
System for Making Reservations
Bumstead
April 29, 1952 Jump to top of page

PDF Drawings
PDF Patent Text - Set 1
PDF Patent Text -set 2
PDF Patent Text -set 3

2916212
Electro-Analog Model Equipment of National Economic System
Yoshiharu Mita
December 8, 1959 Jump to top of page
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Patent Text
3017103
Service Charge Calculation System
Goldberg et al.
January 16, 1962 Jump to top of page

PDF Drawings
PDF Patent Text - Set 1
PDF Patent Text -set 2
PDF Patent Text -set 3

3018050
Economic Data Computer
Barrell
January 23, 1962 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings
Patent Text
3638003
Credit-Accumulating Arrangement
Meixner
January 25, 1972 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2
Patent Text
4365314
Electronic Accounting Machine With Split Display
Badagnani et al.
December 21, 1982 Jump to top of page
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Patent Text
5058009
Financial Calculator for Calculating, Graphically Displaying and Confirming Results of Loan Amortization Calculation
Yoshino et al.
October 15, 1991 Jump to top of page
Appendix G  
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2
Patent Text
6070147
Customer Identification and Marketing Analysis Systems
Harms et al.
May 30, 2000 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings set 1
PDF Drawings set 2 PDF Drawings set 3
Patent Text
6070148
Electronic Commerce System and Method for Providing Commercial Information in Electronic Commerce System
Mori et al.
May 30, 2000 Jump to top of page
PDF Drawings - Set 1
PDF Drawings - Set 2
PDF Drawings - Set 3
PDF Drawings - Set 4
Patent Text
6070149
Virtual Sales Personnel
Tavor et al.
May 30, 2000 Jump to top of page   Return to theTop of this page.

 

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