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This day is reserved for your trademark!

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"U.S. Patent Office" renamed "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office" in 1975

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Patent for an apparatus for solar cooling and heating a house received by Harry Thomason in 1967

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MACK trademark for trucks registered in 1921

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HOME OF THE WHOPPER trademark registered in 1965

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Agronomist George Washington Carver granted patent #1,522,176 in 1925 for cosmetics

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Patent #1,049,667 granted to William Burton in 1913 for the manufacture of gasoline

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Connecticut becomes the 1st state to pass a copyright statute, in 1783, entitled "Act for the Encouragement of Literature and Genius"-enacted due to the help of Dr. Noah Webster

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Campbell's soup trademark registered in 1906

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Thomas Laine patents the electric gas lighter in 1893

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Lloyd Conover patents the antibiotic tetracycline in 1955

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Printing and Binding Act of 1895 prohibits the copyrighting of any Government publication

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Mickey Mouse cartoon first appears in newspapers throughout the U.S. in 1930

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George Cooke received a patent for a gas burner in 1890

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E.G. Otis issued patent #31,128 in 1861 for "improvement in hoisting apparatus" (safety elevator)

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Jim Henson's copyright claim on "Kermit, the Muppet" is renewed in 1984

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Leroy Firman received a patent in 1882 for the telephone switchboard

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Lerner and Lowe's musical "My Fair Lady" copyright was registered in 1957

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DOUBLEMINT trademark registered in 1915

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William Kelly patented the blast furnace for manufacturing steel in 1857

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Arlen and Harburg's song "Over the Rainbow" was copyrighted in 1939

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"Lifebuoy" soap trademark registered in 1895
McGruff the crime dog trademark registered in 1985

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"Casablanca" the movie, was copyrighted in 1943

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Charles Goodyear, Jr. patented the Goodyear Welt, a machine for sewing boots and shoes, in 1871

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Michael Brassill obtained a patent for a candlestick in 1881

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Milk-Bone Brand trademark registered in 1909

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Patent #223,898 granted to Thomas A. Edison in 1880, for "an electric lamp for giving light by incandescence"

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Patent #135,245 obtained in 1873 by French chemist Louis Pasteur for a process of brewing beer and ale

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Charles Steinmetz patented a "system of distribution by alternating current" (A/C power), in 1895

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James Ritty and John Birch received a patent in 1883 for the cash register

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COCA-COLA trademark for "nutrient or tonic beverages" registered in 1893