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2012 Event - A California state jury rules that Samsung electronics owes Apple Inc. over $1 billion for patent infringement

2012 Event - Patent law disputes between Samsung and Apple deadlock as the dispute addresses valuation of each other's patents

2012 Event - Yahoo and Facebook agree to settle a patent dispute, dropping lawsuits against each other and now forming an advertising and content-sharing alliance that expands an existing partnership between the two companies

2011 Event - Samsung Electronics files a patent infringement claim against Apple in Germany

2010 Event - Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others

2000 Event - Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends

1982 Event - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin New York City after 5 perf

1982 Event - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin New York City for 5 performances

1960 Event - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes

1959 Event - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)

1956 Event - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory

1947 Event - Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute

1946 Event - Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb

1938 Event - Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system

1936 Event - EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants

1933 Event - Patent on invisible glass installation

1932 Event - 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree

1929 Birthday - Amedee Turner, born in England, Amedee Edward Turner, politician, barrister, Conservative Party, Member of the European Parliament, patent lawyer

1929 Event - Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

1927 Event - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)

1917 Event - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand

1914 Event - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard

1908 Event - Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc

1906 Event - Wright Brothers patent the aeroplane

1903 Event - Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone

1903 Event - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1902 Event - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan

1895 Event - 1st U.S. patent granted for auto, George B. Selden

1894 Event - Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto

1893 Event - Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat

1892 Event - U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1889 Event - Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake

1889 Event - Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine

1888 Event - John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire

1885 Event - Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle

1879 Event - George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile

1877 Event - John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill

1872 Event - 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office

1868 Event - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1863 Event - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

1863 Event - 1st U.S. fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia

1857 Event - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn

1849 Event - Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

1849 Event - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so

1849 Event - Patent granted for an envelope-making machine

1846 Event - C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive

1846 Event - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

1845 Event - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid

1837 Event - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1836 Event - Patent Office burns in Wash, DC

1836 Event - U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels

1834 Event - Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs

1834 Event - 1st black to obtain a U.S. patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter

1833 Event - Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain

1833 Event - Patent granted for 1st soda fountain

1825 Event - Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans

1816 Event - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston

1809 Event - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw)

1803 Event - John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine

1799 Event - 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont

1794 Event - 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)

1794 Event - 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia

1793 Event - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

1793 Event - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick

1793 Event - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk and linen

1791 Event - John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat

1791 Event - Samuel Briggs and his son, patent nail-making machine

1791 Event - Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent

1790 Event - 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process

1790 Event - U.S. Patent system forms

1788 Event - 1st U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet

1715 Event - 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn

1706 Birthday - John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens

1691 Event - Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service

1684 Event - Patent granted for thimble

1664 Event - Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam

1646 Event - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent

1644 Event - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

1630 Event - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

1620 Event - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

1593 Event - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft

1584 Event - Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer

1578 Event - England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize US

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