What is the first patent in America? And the patent number?

ANT Lawyers
1 min readNov 15, 2017

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What is the first patent in America? And the patent number?

First patent issued by U.S.: First U.S. Patent Issued Today in 1790, issued in 1790.

They didn’t start using numbers until 1836, when Patent #1 was issued on July 13, 1836:

Another 108 patents issued in 1836. Patent #1 was issued to Senator John Ruggles, who happened to be chairman of the Senate Committee on Patents. While there, he put through a bill to reorganize the Patent Office, presumably knowing that one part of the bill would be that patents would now be numbered, went and invented something nominal so that, the sleaze he was, he could nab that first number. Here is the patent in full: Patent US1 — Locomotive steam-engine for rail and other roads.

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