Image:WrightPatentIntro.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

[edit] Summary

Cropped image showing first two paragraphs of the Wright Brothers' 1906 patent for the airplane.

Available at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

Enter number 821393 in Patent Number Search box.

Viewing software required; a small, free, quick download. Info on viewer at this help link:

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm

[edit] Licensing

Public domain This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement that rule of the shorter term.

العربية | Asturianu | Български | Català | Česky | Dansk | Deutsch | English | Ελληνικά | Esperanto | Español | Euskara | فارسی | Français | Gaeilge | Galego | עברית | हिन्दी | Bahasa Indonesia | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Kurdî / كوردی | Lietuvių | Magyar | Nederlands | ‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬ | Bahasa Melayu | Polski | Português | Română | Русский | Slovenčina | Slovenščina | Shqip | Suomi | Sámegiella | Türkçe | ‪中文(简体)‬ | ‪中文(繁體)‬ | 粵語 | +/-
May or may not be in the public domain In general, the contents of United States patents are in the public domain.[1]

In specific cases, patent applicants and holders may claim copyright in portions of those documents. In those specific cases, applicants are required to identify the portions that are protected under copyright, and are additionally required to state the following within the body of the application and patent:[2] [3]

A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to (copyright or mask work) protection. The (copyright or mask work) owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by any­one of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all (copyright or mask work) rights whatsoever.

The original patent should be checked for the presence of such language before an assumption is made that the contents are in the public domain. (This template can be replaced by {{PD-US-patent-no notice}} in such cases.)

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current06:01, 29 November 2006580×438 (72 KB)DonFB (Reverted to earlier revision)
06:00, 29 November 2006319×245 (26 KB)DonFB (Reverted to earlier revision)
05:01, 29 November 2006580×438 (72 KB)DonFB
02:35, 29 November 2006319×245 (26 KB)DonFB (Cropped image showing first two paragraphs of the Wright Brothers' 1906 patent for the airplane. Available at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html Enter number 821393 in Patent Number Search box. Viewing softw)
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):