Patent Data Publications. Computer patent abstracts
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes abstracts of data processor patents primarily from class 364, subclass 200, 300, 518-523, 700-782, and 900 of the U.S. Patent Office classification. They include the areas of digital computer systems, programmable methods or procedures (software), control of data presentation, electrical digital calculating computers, and miscellaneous digital data processing systems.
Each abstract contains the patent number, title, inventor, number of claims, owner, filing date and serial number, technical classification, a drawing, and claim or summary of the disclosure.
Also included is the layout of the introductory material and the cover, a box of 8 ½" x 11" page negatives for volume 1, and a copy of the Fiber Optics Patent Directory, 1881-1979, published by Patent Data.
Dates
- 1881-1982
Creator
- Patent Data Publications (Firm) (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Access to materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
Copyright:
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Historical Note
Patent Data was a publishing firm which specialized in producing subject-related compilations of patent information. In the early 1980s, the firm began work on a seven volume set to be entitled 10,000 Data Processor Patent Abstracts. The publication was abandoned, though most of the abstract data had been compiled.
Extent
9 boxes (3.5 cubic feet)
Abstract
Collection includes abstracts of data processor patents primarily from class 364, subclass 200, 300, 518-523, 700-782, and 900 of the U.S. Patent Office classification. They include the areas of digital computer systems, programmable methods or procedures (software), control of data presentation, electrical digital calculating computers and miscellaneous digital data processing systems.
Arrangement of Collection
The materials are arranged by patent number.
Acquisition:
The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by John H. Coult in 1985.
- Computers -- Circuits. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Computers -- Patents -- United States. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Information display systems. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Patent Data Publications (Firm)
- Title
- Patent Data Publications. Computer Patent Abstracts, 1881-1982. Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by Kevin D. Corbitt, March 1991.
- Date
- July 2006
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
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