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General Information Concerning Patents
What is a Patent? - "a property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor 'to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States' for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted."
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
The USPTO is a federal agency in the Department of Commerce and has maintained the same role for over 200 years: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries.
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Alabama Inventors Database
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This database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library has compiled these records and will add to and update them as information becomes available.
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Publicly Available.
Confederate Patents issued to Alabama Residents
Includes patents issued to Alabama residents by the Confederate Patent Office from 1861-1864.
Recent Patents Received by Alabama Inventors
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