by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Sep 21, 2026 | Article
For the first 46 years after the Patent Act of 1790, the sitting US President personally signed every patent granted under their administration. Unfortunately, most patents bearing an original signature of a president were lost in the 1836 fire of the US Patent Office...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Sep 14, 2026 | Article
Established in 1980, the first recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (“NMTI”) was granted the honor in 1985. The NMTI is the highest honor in the nation for technological achievement and is presented by the President of the United...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Sep 8, 2026 | Article
Charles M. Keller was the first person to hold the official title of patent examiner, becoming one on July 5, 1836, the day after the Patent Act of 1836 was signed into law. The Act required examination of all patents before they could be granted....
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Sep 2, 2026 | Article
Low’s legacy lives on. Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Guides, the organization that transformed into the Girl Scouts, was a woman of culture, charity, and Intellectual Property. Forming the Girl Guides based on her own interest in the arts, self-direction in...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Aug 17, 2026 | Article
Design patents as we know them today were not originally eligible for patent protection in the United States, but that all changed in changed in 1842 after the first design patent was granted to George Bruce. Fast forwarding to 2023, over 150 years after the first...
by Maxey-Fisher Human Resources | Aug 13, 2026 | Article
It depends! The U.S. has copyright relations with numerous countries, under which each country honors the copyrights of each other’s citizens. The U.S. Copyright Office provides a list of countries and relevant agreements on its website. Source:...
