First patent issued by
U.S.: First U.S. Patent Issued Today in 1790, issued in 1790.
They didn’t start using
numbers until 1836, when Patent #1 was issued on July 13, 1836:
Another 108 patents issued in 1836. Patent #1 was issued to
Senator John Ruggles, who happened to be chairman of the Senate Committee on
Patents. While there, he put through a bill to reorganize the Patent Office,
presumably knowing that one part of the bill would...
