Month in the Patent Office

1954 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-99
Keyword(s):  
Patent Office ◽  
British Patent

These abstracts of British Patent Specifications are condensed, by permission, from the official specifications. Copies of the full specifications are obtainable from the Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings, W.C.2, price 2s. 8d. each.

The Future of the British Patent Office

Nature ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 116 (2915) ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
WILLIAM MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Patent Office ◽  
British Patent ◽  
The Future

Registered designs as a history of design

1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Matthew Turner
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Patent Office ◽  
British Patent ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Design ◽  
Source Materials

Since 1839 a million or more designs have been lodged with the British Patent Office. Millions more have been registered in other jurisdictions, for example, in America (from 1842), India (from 1881), and Japan (from 1910). Registered designs are not confined to ‘Good Design’ (according to Modernist Western criteria) but neither do they provide a comprehensive record of design innovation: whether designs from a given country are or are not registered abroad may be less a measure of the country’s design activity, more an indication either of the refusal by an Imperial power to recognise indigenous design as ‘original’, or of whether it is advantageous to a developing country to respect international copyright. Nonetheless, registered designs, which are documented in great detail and may be accompanied by precise visual representations, constitute one of the most extensive series of primary source materials and statistics for an objective, world history of design. The fact that they have been overlooked by design historians can be partially explained by ignorance of their existence or whereabouts, and difficulties of access, but also reflects a limited, Eurocentric approach to design and its history.

The British Patent Office

Nature ◽  
1926 ◽  
Vol 118 (2971) ◽  
pp. 517-518
Author(s):  
ERNEST E. TOWLER
Keyword(s):  
Patent Office ◽  
British Patent
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