original copies of patents found

The background (for those, like me, who didn’t know this) is that there was a fire in 1839 in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that destroyed records of 10,000 patents. Two lawyers just found 14 of the missing patents in Dartmouth College’s library (these were the patent-holder’s copies, which were donated to the library in 1960). The patents were listed in the library catalog – not hidden, if you know where to look.
The Concord Monitor has a story, but Dartmouth’s website does not.

August 10, 2004 by Legal Issues Libraries

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