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Articles
Adams, John. “Intellectual Property Cases in Lord Mansfield’s Court Notebooks.” Journal of Legal History 8, no. 1 (1987): 18-24. DOI: 10.1080/01440368708530882
*Ball, Norman R. “Comments on the Burrard Inlet Sawmill Inventory: 1869.” Material History Bulletin (1977): 73-80.
Basberg, Bjorn L. “Creating a Patent System in the European Periphery: the Case of Norway, 1839-1860.” Scandinavian Economic History Review 45, no. 2 (1997): 142-158.
Batley, Tania. “A different way of Sitting: American patent folding chairs of the nineteenth century.” Material Culture Review no. 74/75 (Spring 2012): 57-69.
Beauchamp, Christopher. “The first patent litigation explosion.” Yale Law Review 125, no. 4 (2016): 848-944.
Beauchamp, Christopher. “The telephone patents: intellectual property, business, and the law in the United States and Britain, 1876-1900.” Enterprise & Society 9, no. 4 (2008): 591-601.
Ben-Atar, Doron. “Alexander Hamilton’s Alternative: Technology Piracy and the Report on Manufactures.” William & Mary Quarterly 52, no. 3 (1995): 389-414. DOI: 10.2307/2947292
Bently, Lionel. “The ‘extraordinary Multiplicity’ of intellectual property laws in the British Colonies in the nineteenth century.” Theoretical Inquires in Law. 12, no. 1 (2011): 161-200.
Berkman, Sue. “Models of Inventive America.” Historic Preservation 29, no. 4 (1977): 21-23.
Bottomley, Sean. “Parliament, Inventions and Patents: a Research Guide and Bibliography; Privatized Law Reform: a History of Patent Law through Private Legislation, 1620-1907.” Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property. 9, no. 1 (2019): 125-126. DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2019-0002
Bottomley, Sean. “Patents, invention, and democracy in Britain and the United States to 1852.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 60, no. 1 (2019): 9-30.
Cooper, Carolyn C. “Making Inventions Patent.” Technology & Culture 32, no. 4 (1991): 837-845. DOI: 10.2307/3106153
Corley, T. A. B. “Interactions Between the British and American Patent Medicine Industries 1708-1914.” Business & Economic History 16 (1987): 111-129.
Daff, Trevor. “Sources for Industrial History: Patents as History.” Local Historian 9, no. 6 (1971): 275-279.
DeLuca, Richard. “Against the tide: the unfortunate life of steamboat inventor John Fitch.” Connecticut History 44, no. 1 (2005): 1-31. DOI: 10.2307/44369665
DeLuca, Richard. “John Fitch and the Challenges of Invention and Patent: the Documents.” Connecticut History 44, no. 1 (2005): 126-133. DOI: 10.2307/44369673
Dodd, Kendall. ”Pursuing the Essence of Inventions: Reissuing Patents in the 19th Century.” Technology and Culture. 32 (1991): 999-1017. DOI: 10.2307/3106159
Edwards, Susan E. “Patents: An Introduction.” Special Libraries 69, no. 2 (1978): 45-50.
Epstein, Katherine C. “The other visible hand: national security and intellectual property in the United States before World War I.” Enterprises et Historie 85, no. 4 (2016): 40-53. DOI: 10.3917/eh.085.0040
Federico, P. J. “Records of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin Patent.” Technology & Culture 1, no. 2 (1960): 168-176. DOI: 10.2307/3101059
Gallman, Robert E. “A Note on the Patent Office Crop Estimates, 1841-1848.” Journal of Economic History 23, no. 2 (1963): 185-195. DOI: 10.1108/JD-11-2018-0193
Gregory, Martin. “Superseding the seamstress – the sewing machine, from invention to mass production in a generation.” International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology 84, no.2 (July 2014): 115-134. DOI: 10.1179/1758120614Z.00000000045
Gripshover, Margaret M. “Patently Good Ideas: Innovations and Inventions in U.S. Onion Farming, 1883-1939.” Material Culture 44, no. 1 (2012): 1-30.
Green, Frances. “America’s First Patentee – Joseph Jenkins.” New-England Galaxy 7, no. 1 (1965): 49-51.
Guise, David. “Development of the lenticular truss bridge in America.” Journal of Bridge Engineering 12, no. 1 (2007):120-129. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2007)12:1(120)
Guise-Richardson, Cai. “Using patents to teach history.” OAH Magazine of History 24, no.3 (July 2020): 45-48.
Guthrie, Jason L. “Poor Richard Revised: Benjamin Franklin and the Ritual Economy of Copyright in Colonial America.” American Journalism 35, no. 3 (2018) 315-333. DOI: 10.1080/08821127.2018.1491205
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva. “How Patents became Documents, or Dreaming of Technoscientific order, 1895-1937.” Journal of Documentation, 2019 75, no. 3 (2019): 577-592. DOI: 10.1108/JD-11-2018-0193
Hewish, John. “From Cromford to Chancery Lane: New Light on the Arkwright Patent Trials.” Technology & Culture 28, no. 1 (1987): 80-86. DOI: 10.2307/3105478
Hiestand, W C. “Invisible Inventors. a Historical Overview of Creative Midwives and Nurses.” Nursing leadership forum 4, no. 1 (1999):18-25.
Higby, Greg. “Lost in the Patent Office – a whimsical journey through pharmaceutical patents.” Pharmacy in History 54, no. 2/3 (2012): 88-91.
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane. “Invention and the State in 18th-century France.” Technology & Culture 32, no. 4 (1991): 911-931. DOI: 10.2307/3106156
Hintz, Eric S. “The post-heroic generation: American independent inventors, 1900-1950.” Enterprise & Society 12, no. 4 (2011): 732-748. DOI: 10.1093/es/khr039
Hodgen, Margaret T. “Sir Matthew Hale and the ‘Method’ of Invention.” ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society 34, no. 4 (1943): 313-318.
Hogan, Donald W. “Unwanted Treasures of the Patent Office.” American Heritage 9, no. 2 (1958): 16.
Israel, Paul, and Robert Rosenberg. “Patent Office Records as a Historical Source: the Case of Thomas Edison.” Technology and Culture. 32, (1991):1094-1101. DOI: 10.2307/3106163
Jeremy, David J. “Invention in American Textile Technology during the Early Nineteenth Century, 1790-1830.” Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Research Center 5, no. 4 (1982): 1-45.
Johnson, Keith V. and Elwood D. Watson. “A Historical Chronology of the Plight of African Americans Gaining Recognition in Engineering and Technology.” Journal of Technology Studies 31, no. 1/2 (2005): 81-93.
Jones, Olive R. “Essence of Peppermint, a History of the Medicine and its Bottle.” Historical Archaeology 15, no. 2 (1981): 1-57.
Khan, B. Zorina. “Going for gold: industrial fairs and innovation in the nineteenth-century United States.” Revue économique 64, no. 1 (2013): 89-113.
Khan, B. Zorina. “The Impact of War on Resource Allocation: ‘Creative destruction,’ Patenting, and the American Civil War.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 46, no. 3 (2016): 315-353. DOI: 10.1162/JINH_a_00867
Khan, B. Zorina. “Married Women’s Property Laws and Female Commercial Activity: Evidence from United States Patent Records, 1790-1895.” Journal of Economic History 56, no. 2 (1996): 356-388.
Khan, B. Zorina. “‘Not for Ornament’: Patenting Activity by Nineteenth-Century Women Inventors.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31, no. 2 (2000): 159-195.
Khan, B. Zorina. “Property Rights and Patent Litigation in Early Nineteenth-Century America.” Journal of Economic History 55, no. 1 (1995): 58-97.
Khan, B. Zorina, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. “History lessons: The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 15, no. 3 (2001): 233-246.
Khan, B. Zorina, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. “Institutions and Democratic Invention in 19th-Century America: Evidence from ‘Great Inventors’1790-1930.” American Economic Review 94, no. 2 (2004): 395-401.
Kahn, B. Zorina, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. “Schemes of Practical Utility’: Entrepreneurship and Innovation among ‘Great Inventors’ in the United States, 1790-1865.” Journal of Economic History. 53 (1993):289-307.
Kevles, Daniel J. “Inventions, Yes; Nature, No: The Products-of-Nature Doctrine From the American Colonies to the U.S. Courts.” Perspectives on Science 23, no. 1 (2015): 13-34 DOI: 10.1162/POSC_a_00157
Kevles, Daniel J. “Patents, Protections, and Privileges: The Establishment of Intellectual Property in Animals and Plants.” Journal of the History of Science in Society 98, no. 2 (2007): 323-331. DOI: 10.1086/518192
Kevles, Daniel J. “Protections, Privileges, and Patents: Intellectual Property in American Horticulture: the Late Nineteenth Century to 1930.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 152, no. 2 (2008): 207-213.
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. “Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th Century United States.” American Economic Review 91, no. 2 (2001): 39-44. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.39
Linebaugh, Donald W. “Illuminating a country retreat: gas lighting at President Lincoln’s cottage.” APT Bulletin 43, no. 2/3 (2012): 59-69.
Lubar, Steve. “New, Useful, and Obvious.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 6, no. 1 (1990): 8-16.
MacLeod, Christine. “The 1690s Patents Boom: Invention or Stock-Jobbing?.” Economic History Review 39, no. 4 (1986): 549-571. DOI: 10.2307/2596483
MacLeod, Christine. “The Paradoxes of Patenting: Invention and its Diffusion in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain, France, and North America.” Technology and Culture. 32 (1991):885-910. DOI: 10.2307/3106155
MacMurray, Robert R. “Technological Change in a Society in Transition: Work in Progress on a Unified Reference Work in Early American Patent History.” Journal of Economic History 45, no. 2 (1985): 299-303.
Malone, Laurence J. “Origins, Development and Concentration of the Match Industry in the United States from 1830 to 1880.” Essays in Economic & Business History 16 (1998): 147-160.
Marovich, Lisa A. “Fueling the fires of genius: women’s inventive activities in American War eras.” The Journal of Economic History 59, no. 2 (1999): 462-466.
Maxey, David W. “Samuel Hopkins, the holder of the first U.S. patent: a study in failure.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography 122, no. 1 (1998): 3-37.
Maxson, John W., Jr. “Papermaking in America: from Art to Industry, 1690 to 1860.” US Library of Congress Quarterly Journal 25, no. 2 (1968): 116-129.
Mexias, Stephen J. and Elizabeth Boyle. “Blind Trust: market control, legal environments, and the dynamics of competitive intensity in the early American film industry, 1893-1920.” Administrative Science Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2005): 1-34. DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2005.50.1.1
Moser, Petra. “Do patents weaken the localization of innovations? Evidence from World’s Fairs.” Journal of Economic History 71, no. 2 (2011): 363-382. DOI: 10.1017/S0022050711001562
Moser, Petra, Alessandra Voena, and Fabian Waldinger. “German Jewish Émigrés and U.S. invention.” American Economic Review 104, no. 10 (October 2014): 3222-3255. DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.10.3222
Mountjoy, Paul T. “Methodological Note: the United States Patent Office as a Source of Historical Documents.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 10, no. 1 (1974): 119-120. DOI: 10.1002/1520-6696(197401)10:1<119::AID-JHBS2300100112>3.0.CO;2-X
Muir, Andrew Forest. “Patents and Copyrights in the Republic of Texas.” Journal of Southern History 12, no. 2 (1946): 204-222. DOI: 10.2307/2198150
Nascimento, Harrison Henri dos Santos, Cleber Nauber dos Santos, Carlos Henrique Almeida Alves, and Marcio Luis Ferreira Nascimento. “The X-Patents.” World Patent Information 53 (June 2018): 1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.wpi.2018.03.003
Nicholas, Tom. “The role of independent invention in U.S. Technological development, 1880-1930.” Journal of Economic History 70, no. 1 (2010): 57-82. DOI: 10.1017/S0022050710000057
Nuvolari, Alessandro and Valentina Tartari. “Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: a reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality.” Explorations in Economic History 82, (October 2021): 19pgs DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101419
O’Brien, Patrick K., Griffiths, Trevor, and Philip Hunt. “There is Nothing Outside the Text, and There is No Safety in Numbers: A Reply to Sullivan.” Journal of Economic History 55, no. 3 (1995): 671-672.
Paynter, Henry M. “The First U.S. Patent.” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 6, no. 2 (1990): 18-22.
Peteu, Mihaela Cornelia and Sally Helvenston. “Clothing Invention: improving the functionality of women’s skirts, 1846-1920.” Clothing & Textiles Research Journal 27, no. 1 (2009): 45-61. DOI: 10.1177/0887302X08322718
Plevan, Kenneth A. “The Second Circuit and the development of intellectual property law: the first 125 years.” Fordham Law Review 85, no. 1 (October 2015): 143-182.
Prager, Frank D. “Trends and developments in American patent law from Jefferson to Clifford (1790-1870).” American Journal of Legal History 6, no. 1 (1962): 45-62. DOI: 10.2307/844434
Prager, Frank D. “The changing views of Justice Story on the construction of patents.” American Journal of Legal History 4, no. 1 (1960): 1-21. DOI: 10.2307/844548
Prager, Frank. “The influence of Mr. Justice Story on American patent law.” American Journal of Legal History 5, no. 3 (1961): 254-264. DOI: 10.2307/844217
Preston, Daniel. “The Administration and Reform of the U.S. Patent Office, 1790-1836.” Journal of the Early Republic 5, no. 3 (1985): 331-353. DOI: 10.2307/3122587
Pursell, Carroll. “The American Patent Agency: The embedded ‘Lone Inventor’ in American history.” Icon 17, (2011): 31-39.
Quen, Jacques M. “Elisha Perkins, physician, nostrum-vendor, or charlatan?.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 37, no. 2 (1963): 159-166.
Reingold, Nathan. “U.S. Patent Office records as sources for the history of invention and technological property.” Technology & Culture 1, no. 2 (1960): 156-167. DOI: 10.2307/3101058
Sarada, Sarada, Michael J. Andrews, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. “Changes in the demographics of American inventors, 1870-1940.” Explorations in Economic History 74, (October 2019): 1-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2019.05.003
Schurr, Cathleen. “Two hundred years of patents and copyrights.” American History Illustrated 25, no. 3 (1990): 60-71.
Sharrer, G. Terry. “Patents by Marylanders, 1790-1830.” Maryland Historical Magazine 71, no. 1 (1976): 50-59.
Shepard, Arlesa J. “Waterproof dress: patents as evidence of design and function from 1880 through 1895.” Clothing & Textiles Research Journal 30, no. 3 (2012): 183-199. DOI: 10.1177/0887302X12452910
Sluby, Patricia Carter. “Minority inventive genius: a look at spirited American people.” Journal of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society 11, no. 1 (1990): 50-63.
Sokoloff, Kenneth L. “Inventive activity in early industrial America: evidence from patent records, 1790-1846.” Journal of Economic History 48, no. 4 (1988): 813-850.
Sokoloff, Kenneth L., and B. Zorina Khan. “The democratization of invention during early industrialization: evidence from the United States, 1790-1846.” Journal of Economic History. 50 (1990):363-378.
Stirk, Nigel. “Intellectual property and the role of manufacturers: definitions from the late eighteenth century.” Journal of Historical Geography 27, no. 4 (2001): 475-492. DOI: 10.1006/jhge.2001.0351
Sullivan, Richard J. “England’s ‘age of invention’: the acceleration of patents and patentable invention during the industrial revolution.” Explorations in Economic History 26, no. 4 (1989): 424-452.
Sullivan, Richard J. “The revolution of ideas: widespread patenting and invention during the English industrial revolution.” Journal of Economic History 50, no. 2 (1990): 349-362.
Swanson, Kara W. “Inventing the woman voter: suffrage, ability, and patents.” Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era 19, no. 4 (2020): 559-574. DOI: 10.1017/S1537781420000316
Swanson, Kara W. “Making patents: patent administration, 1790-1860.” Case Western Law Review 71, no. 2 (2020): 777-818.
Swanson, Kara W. “Rubbing elbows and blowing smoke: gender, class, and science in the nineteenth-century Patent Office.” ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society 108, no. 1 (May 2017): 40-61.
Sylla, Richard. “’…The patent in contemplation will be the most lucrative that ever was obtained’: Robert Fulton to [Robert R. Livingston] on the profit potential of steamboat navigation in the early nineteenth century.” OAH Magazine of History 19, no. 3 (2005): 44-53.
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Wallace, Anthony F. C., and David J. Jeremy. “William Pollard and the Arkwright patents.” William & Mary Quarterly 34, no. 3 (1977): 404-425. DOI: 10.2307/1923560
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Williams, Robert C. “Antique Farm Equipment: Researching and Identifying.” History News 32, no. 11 (1977): 299-306.
Winship, Ian. “Patents as a historical source.” IA :The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 16, no. 3 (1981): 261-269.
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Books
Cooper, Carolyn C. Shaping invention: Thomas Blanchard’s machinery and patent management in nineteenth-century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Cooper, Hal D., and Thomas M. Schmitz. A history of inventions, patents, and patent lawyers in the Western Reserve. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Association, 1993.
Dutton, H. I. The patent system and inventive activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1852. Manchester [Greater Manchester]: Manchester University Press, 1984.
Emerson, Jason. Lincoln the inventor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
Evenson, A. Edward. The telephone patent conspiracy of 1876: Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell controversy and its many players. Jefferson: McFarland, 2000.
Ferguson, Eugene S., and Christopher T. Baer. Little machines: patent models in the nineteenth century. Greenville, Del: Hagley Museum, 1979.
Fessenden, Thomas G. An essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions with an Appendix, containing the French Patent Law, Forms, etc. Boston: D. Mallory & Co., 1810.
Flynn, William J. Patents since the Renaissance. Bangor: Booklocker, 2006.
Foundation for a Creative America. Patent and copyright history handbook through the year 1990. Washington, D.C.: Foundation for a Creative America, 1991.
Great Britain. Patents for inventions: abridgements of specifications relating to music and musical instruments, A.D. 1694-1866. London: T. Bingham, 1984.
Great Britain. Subject list of works of reference, biography, bibliography, the auxiliary historical sciences, etc., in the library of the Patent office. London: Darling & son, 1908.
Greenleaf, William. Monopoly on wheels; Henry Ford and the Selden automobile patent. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1961.
Harrison, James. Encouraging innovation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the Society of Arts and patents, 1754-1904. Gunnislake, Cornwall: High View, 2006.
Johnson, Phillip. Parliament, inventions and patents: a research guide and bibliography. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Kemp, Emory Leland. American bridge patents: the first century (1790 – 1890). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2005.
Khan, B. Zorina. The democratization of invention: patents and copyrights in American economic development, 1790-1920. NBER series on long-term factors in economic development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Khan, B. Zorina. Inventing ideas: patents, prizes, and the knowledge economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Loewenstein, Joseph. “Ingenuity and the Mercantile Muse: Authorship and the History of the Patent.” In The Author’s Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright, Edited by Joseph Loewenstein., 91-131. DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226490410.003.0004
MacLeod, Christine. Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English patent system, 1660-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
MacMurray, Robert R. Technological change in the American cotton spinning industry, 1790 to 1836. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1977.
McGaw, Judith A., ed. Early American technology: making and doing things from the colonial era to 1850. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Metschl, John. Collection of projectile arms: The Rudolph J. Nunnemacher collection of projectile arms. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1970.
Mossoff, Adam. Rethinking the development of patents: an intellectual history, 1550-1800. Occasional papers in intellectual property & communications law, no. 2. East Lansing, MI: Intellectual Property & Communication Law Program, Michigan State University-DCL College of Law, 2003.
Patent Office Society (U.S.). Outline of the history of the United States Patent office. Washington: Patent Office Society, 1936.
Pelanda, Brian L. “For the general diffusion of knowledge”: Foundations of American Copyright Ideology, 1783-1790. Master’s Thesis. University of Akron, 2008.
Roach, Edward J. The Wright Company: from invention to industry. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014.
Robie, Willian. For the greatest achievement: a history of the Aero Club of America and the National Aeronautic Association. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee. 1988. Inventive activity in early industrial America: evidence from patent records, 1790-1846. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1988.
Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and daughters of invention: notes for a revised history of technology. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Steward, John F. 1931. The reaper: a history of the efforts of those who justly may be said to have made bread cheap. New York: Greenberg, 1931.
Stirk, David I. Golf: history and tradition 1500-1945. Ludlow: Excellent Press, 1996.
Taylerson, A. W. F., Ronald A. N. Andrews, and James Frith. The revolver, 1818-1865. New York: Crown Publishers, 1968.
Tuten, Fern. “American Domestic Patented Furniture, 1790-1850: a compendium.” PhD diss. Florida State University, 1975.
United States. List of patents for inventions and designs, issued by the United States, from 1790 to 1847, with the patent laws and notes of decisions of the courts of the United States for the same period: Compiled and published under the direction of Edmund Burke, Commissioner of Patents. Washington: Printed by J. & G.S. Gideon, 1847.
United States. The story of the American patent system, 1790-1952. Washington: U.S. GPO, 1953.
United States. The story of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, 1988.
Van Dulken, Stephen. American inventions: a history of curious, extraordinary, and just plain useful patents. New York: New York University Press, 2004.
Van Dulken, Stephen. British patents of invention, 1617-1977: a guide for researchers. Key Resource Series. London: The British Library, 1999.
Vaughan, Floyd L. The United States patent system; legal and economic conflicts in American patent history. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Welsh, Peter C. United States patents, 1790-1870: new uses for old ideas. Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 48. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965.
Walterscheid, Edward C. To Promote the Progress of Useful Arts: American Patent Law and Administration, 1798-1836. Littleton: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1998.
Woodcroft, Bennet. A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1848.
Historical State and Federal Court Cases
Reutgen v. Kanowrs et al. Case No. 11,710, Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania, 20 F. Cas. 555; 1804 U.S. App. LEXIS 367; 1 Wash. C. C. 168, October, 1804
Morrison v. Clay. [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL] Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 3 Ky. 430; 1808 Ky. LEXIS 85; 1 Hard. 430, March, 1808, Decided
West v. Morrison, and Morrison vs. Clay and West. [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 5 Ky. 376; 1811 Ky. LEXIS 62; 2 Bibb 376, September, 1811, Decided
Evans v. Weiss, Case No. 4,572, Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania, 8 F. Cas. 888; 1809 U.S. App. LEXIS 324; 2 Wash. C. C. 342, October, 1809, Term
Whitney v. Carter, Case No. 17,583 , Circuit Court, D. Georgia, 29 F. Cas. 1070; 1810 U.S. App. LEXIS 158, 1810
Tyler and others v. Tuel., Supreme Court of the United States, 10 U.S. 324; 3 L. Ed. 237; 1810 U.S. LEXIS 346; 6 Cranch 324, March 16, 1810, Decided
Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton, Appellants. v. James Van Ingen, H. Boyd, and twenty others, Respondents. [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL] Court for the Correction OF Errors of New York, 9 Johns. 507; 1811 N.Y. LEXIS 212
April, 1811, And 1812, Decided
Judah Bliss & Al. v. Joel Negus. [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL] Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire 8 Mass. 46; 1811 Mass. LEXIS 88; 8 Tyng 46 September, 1811, Decided
Park v. Little et al. Case No. 10,715, Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania, 18 F. Cas. 1107; 1813 U.S. App. LEXIS 325; 3 Wash. C. C. 196, April, 1813, Term
Whittemore v. Cutter, Case No. 17,600, Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts, 29 F. Cas. 1120; 1813 U.S. App. LEXIS 371; 1 Gall. 429, May, 1813, Term
Whittemore et al. v. Cutter, Case No. 17,601, Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts, 29 F. Cas. 1123; 1813 U.S. App. LEXIS 372; 1 Gall. 478 October, 1813, Term
Woodcock v. Parker et al., Case No. 17,971, Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts, 30 F. Cas. 491; 1813 U.S. App. LEXIS 375; 1 Gall. 438, May, 1813
Evans v. Jordan et al., Case No. 4,564, Circuit Court, D. Virginia, 8 F. Cas. 872; 1813 U.S. App. LEXIS 336; 1 Brock. 248, May, 1813, Term
William Hillhouse, jun. and Josiah B. Morse v. Aaron Smith, Lucius Smith, Samuel Carter, John Welch, James Birge and Daniel Potter. [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL], Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, 5 Day 432; 1813 Conn. LEXIS 5, June, 1813, Decided
James Sacket, Nathan Smith and William Hawley v. William Hillhouse: [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL], Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, 5 Day 551; 1813 Conn. LEXIS 21, November, 1813, Decided
Goodyear v. Mathews, Case No. 5,576, Circuit Court, D. Connecticut, 10 F. Cas. 700; 1814 U.S. App. LEXIS 219, April, 1814, Term
Odiorne v. Winkley, Case No. 10,432, Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts, 18 F. Cas. 581; 1814 U.S. App. LEXIS 231; 2 Gall. 51, May, 1814, Term [U.S. patent 4,714] https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F.Cas/0018.f.cas/0018.f.cas.0581.pdf
Bull and another v. Pratt. [NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL] Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, New Haven 1 Conn. 342; 1815 Conn. LEXIS 8 June Term, 1815, Decided
Evans v. Jordan and Morehead. Supreme Court of the United States, 13 U.S. 199; 3 L. Ed. 704; 1815 U.S. LEXIS 385; 9 Cranch 199, March 4, 1815, Decided
Evans v. Eaton, Case No. 4,559 Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania 8 F. Cas. 846; 1816 U.S. App. LEXIS 182; 1 Pet. C.C. 322 October, 1816, Term
Stearns v. Barrett Case No. 13,337 Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts 22 F. Cas. 1175; 1816 U.S. App. LEXIS 131 October, 1816, Term
Gray v. James et al. Case No. 5,718 Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania 10 F. Cas. 1015; 1817 U.S. App. LEXIS 163; 1 Pet. C.C. 394 April, 1817, Term