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Silly Putty trademark registered 1952

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Emil Haefely obtains a patent in 1907 for a method of wrapping electrical conductors

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Radio City Music Hall trademark registered in 1979

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William Coolidge obtains a patent in 1933 for the X-ray tube

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"What's Up Doc?" trademark for T shirts registered in 1988

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Patent #764,166 granted to Albert Gonzales for a "railway switch" in 1904

7

Warner Brothers copyrights "Batman" a movie based on a popular cartoon character, in 1989

8

Anna Nichols becomes the 1st woman patent examiner in 1873

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"Portable Beam Generator" known as a hand-held laser ray gun granted to Frederick R. Schollhammer in 1968, patent #3,392,261

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Rotary Printing Press patented in 1847 by Richard Hoe

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HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CIH & CO Compound Extract trademark registered in 1893

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"Green Giant" Great Big Tender Peas trademark registered in 1927

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Patent Numbering begins - 1836

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Sarah Goode becomes the 1st black woman to receive a U.S. patent in 1885, for a folding cabinet bed

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Detroit Tigers trademark registered 1975

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Thaddeus Hyatt is granted a patent in 1878 for reinforced concrete

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Granville Woods receives a patent in 1888 for tunnel construction for electric railways

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Sobin, Finlay, and Kane are issued a patent for producing terramycin, an antibiotic, in 1950

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"Breyers" Ice Cream trademark registered in 1921

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Patent Act of 1865 directs that the Commissioner of Patents turn over patent fees to the Treasury and meet expenses through Congressional appropriations

21

Mark Twain's "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer" copyright is registered in 1875

22

Louis Pasteur receives a patent for the manufacture of beer and treatment of yeast in 1873

23

"America the Beautiful" copyright is registered in 1906 by Katharine Lee Bates

Jonathan Hoyt patents a lamp in 1872

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Patent for Oral Penicillin is obtained in 1956 by Ernst Brandl and Hans Margreiter

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Emily Tassey is granted a patent in 1876 for an apparatus for raising sunken vessels

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Design Patent #349,137 for a toy bear granted to Josef Gottstein in 1994

27

The first episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" copyright is registered in 1960

28

The "ready light" or taper is patented by John Mitchell in 1885

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Design Patent #381,781 for a swimming pool leaf and debris removal net granted to Ross Clay in 1997

30

The "Monopoly" board game trademark is registered in 1935.

31

Samuel Hopkins is issued the 1st U.S. patent in 1790 for manufacturing potash