On 11/22/2013 3:00 PM, l not -l wrote:
> On 22-Nov-2013, jmcquown > wrote:
>
>> I don't know about by law, but I doubt anyone has been busily scanning
>>
>> patent applications from around 1880 into a national database.
> They have. US patent office has a site with digitized patent
> applications 1790 to present . Also available through Google searches
> if you'd prefer them to track your interests to better target the ads
> you see 8-).
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/
>
Don't you have to know under what name they patented the gizmo? Or at
least the name of the person or company who applied for the patent?

Jill