A 95% rejection rate...and the public having no problem with that?
In nineteen cases out of twenty, probably, the opinion of the Commissioner, accompanied by the information on which his decision is founded, will be acquiesced in. When unsatisfactory, the rights of the applicant will find ample protection in an appeal to a board of examiners, selected for their particular knowledge of the subject-matter of the invention in each case.
John Ruggles, Senate Report Accompanying Senate Bill No. 239, 24th Cong., 1st Sess. (April 28, 1836)
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| U.S.P. 1 (1836), J. Ruggles. |
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| John Ruggles - Father of the 1836 Patent Act |
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