Franklin Allison Cresee

Franklin Allison Cresee is known for Practical Pointers for Patentees, a guide to patent selling and invention management published by Munn & Co. in the early 1900s and later revised in additional editions.

Reliable biographical detail about his life appears to be scarce in the sources I could confirm. Based on his published work, he wrote for inventors in a practical, no-nonsense way, focusing on how patentees could present, market, and manage their ideas rather than treating patents as purely legal theory.

Because clear source-backed personal information is limited, it is safest to remember him primarily as an early patent writer whose surviving reputation rests on this straightforward handbook for inventors.