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unusual facts about United States Patent Office



John J. Roane

Roane was a clerk in the United States Patent Office from 1836 to 1851 and a special agent for the United States Treasury Department from 1855 to 1867.

Postage stamp booklet

Booklets of telegraph stamps are known to have been issued by the California State Telegraph Company in 1870, and by Western Union in 1871, and on 14 October 1884 an A.W. Cooke of Boston received Patent 306,674 from the United States Patent Office for the idea of putting postage stamps into booklets.


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T-carrier

On March 29, 2011 the United States Patent Office issued patent no. 7,916,844 to Telarus for software that calculates real-time T-carrier prices.