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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents
A long-running U.S. Senate committee, this body handled patent matters during a period when invention and industrial growth were reshaping the country. Its reports and hearings offer a window into how lawmakers debated the value of new ideas and the rules meant to protect them.
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Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906.
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents
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Created in 1837 as the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, this Senate committee was responsible for legislation and reports dealing with patents and the federal patent system. It later became known simply as the Committee on Patents, and it remained active into the early 20th century.
Rather than being a single person, this “author” name refers to a congressional committee whose published reports were part of the everyday work of the United States Senate. Those documents often considered inventors' petitions, proposed changes to patent law, and questions about how the Patent Office should operate.
For readers interested in the history of American innovation, works issued under this committee’s name capture the close connection between government, technology, and economic change in the 1800s and early 1900s.