Franklin Allison Cresee

Franklin Allison Cresee is known for Practical Pointers for Patentees, a guide for inventors that was published in the early 1900s and later revised. The book focuses on patent sales, commercialization, and the practical steps inventors could take to handle their inventions more effectively.

Reliable catalog and library sources found during this search point mainly to that book and offer very little confirmed biographical detail about his life. Because of that, the safest picture is of a writer whose surviving reputation rests on giving clear, useful advice to patentees rather than on a well-documented public biography.

For modern listeners, Cresee's appeal is historical as much as practical: his work captures a time when invention, business strategy, and patent protection were tightly linked, and he explains those connections in a direct, readable way.