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Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10], New York (1789)

Source:
United States Copyright Office

Citation:
Joint Copyright Patent Bill [H.R. 10] (1789), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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Full title
A Bill to Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts [H.R. 10]

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Abstract
A joint copyright-patent Bill prepared by a three person committee appointed by the House . The Bill was later split into two separate Acts. No known copy of H.R.10 has survived. The version reproduced here is of a typescript of a typescript of the original kept in the U.S. Copyright Office.

Bibliography
Bugbee, Bruce Willis. The Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law. Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
Walterscheid, Edward C. To promote the progress of useful arts : American patent law and administration, 1798-1836. Littleton, Colo. : F.B. Rothman, 1998.

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New York

Year
1789

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English

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United States Copyright Office

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U.S. Patent Act 1790

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U.S. Congress
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U.S. Copyright Office

Key words
authors' remuneration
books, protected subject matter
duration
formalities
inventions
inventors
patents, for invention
penalties
registration

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Oren Bracha




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Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page).




Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK