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How Two Major Fires Changed US Patent Law

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TechStuff
Episode • Sep 21, 2023 • 33m

A fire in 1836 wiped out nearly every patent on file in the United States. How did the patent office rebuild, and how did a second fire in 1877 change things even more?

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