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Law Officers' Department: Patents for Inventions
Catalogue reference: LO 1
What's it about?
LO 1
These records arise from the duties of the law officers of the crown in connection with applications for patents for inventions. Many of them relate to work imposed upon them by the Patents for Invention Act 1852, formerly known as the Patent Law...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LO 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Law Officers' Department: Patents for Inventions
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Date (When the record was created)
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1839-1885
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records arise from the duties of the law officers of the crown in connection with applications for patents for inventions. Many of them relate to work imposed upon them by the Patents for Invention Act 1852, formerly known as the Patent Law Amendment Act. This work was later transferred to the comptroller general of patents under the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act 1883.
Caveats against the issue of letters patent, particulars of inventions, proceedings concerning the granting of letters patent and disclaimers and opposition thereto, and other miscellaneous papers are included.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also records of the Patent Office in:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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45 bundle(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Trade and commerce
- Research
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The bulk of the records accumulated by the law officers in regard to duties relating to patents for inventions were subsequently destroyed under a Destruction Schedule of 13 August 1926.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10296/
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Law Officers' Department: Patents for Inventions
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