Practical Pointers for Patentees

by Franklin Allison Cresee

TABLE OF OCCUPATIONS

Census of 1890

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• All Occupations (persons engaged in) 22,735,861

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Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining, total, 9,013,336

• Agricultural laborers 3,004,061
• Apiarists 1,778
• Dairymen and dairywomen 17,895
• Farmers, planters, and overseers 5,281,557
• Fishermen and oystermen 60,162
• Gardeners, florists, nurserymen, and vine growers 72,601
• Lumbermen and raftsmen 65,866
• Miners (coal) 208,545
• Miners (not otherwise specified) 141,047
• Quarrymen 37,656
• Stock raisers, herders, and drovers 70,729
• Wood choppers 33,697
• Other agricultural pursuits 17,747

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Professional Service, 944,333

• Actors 9,728
• Architects 8,070
• Artists and teachers of art 22,496
• Authors and literary and scientific persons 6,714
• Chemists, assayers, and metallurgists 4,503
• Clergymen 88,203
• Dentists 17,498
• Designers, draughtsmen, and inventors 9,391
• Engineers (civil, mechanical, electrical, and mining and surveyors) 43,239
• Journalists 21,849
• Lawyers 89,630
• Musicians and teachers of music 62,155
• Officers of the United States army and navy 2,926
• Officials (Government) 79,664
• Physicians and surgeons 104,805
• Professors in colleges and universities 5,393
• Teachers 341,952
• Theatrical managers, showmen, etc. 18,055
• Veterinary surgeons 6,494
• Other professional service 1,569

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Domestic and Personal Service, 4,360,577

• Barbers and hairdressers 84,982
• Bartenders 55,806
• Boarding and lodging house keepers 44,349
• Engineers and firemen (not locomotive) 139,765
• Hotel keepers 44,076
• Housekeepers and stewards 92,036
• Hunters, trappers, guides, and scouts 2,534
• Janitors 21,556
• Laborers (not specified) 1,913,373
• Launderers and laundresses 248,463
• Nurses and midwives 47,586
• Restaurant keepers 19,283
• Saloon keepers 71,385
• Servants 1,454,791
• Sextons 4,982
• Soldiers, sailors, and marines (United States) 27,819
• Watchmen, policemen, and detectives 74,629
• Other domestic and personal service 13,063

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Trade and Transportation, 3,326,122

• Agents (claim, commission, real estate, insurance, etc.) and collectors 174,582
• Auctioneers 3,205
• Bankers and brokers (money and stocks) 30,008
• Boatmen and canalmen 16,716
• Bookkeepers and accountants 159,374
• Brokers (commercial) 5,960
• Clerks and copyists 557,358
• Commercial travellers 58,691
• Draymen, hackmen, teamsters, etc 368,499
• Foremen and overseers 36,084
• Hostlers 54,036
• Hucksters and pedlers 59,083
• Livery stable keepers 26,757
• Locomotive engineers and firemen 79,463
• Merchants and dealers in drugs and chemicals (retail) 46,375
• Merchants and dealers in drygoods (retail) 42,527
• Merchants and dealers in groceries (retail) 114,997
• Merchants and dealers in wines and liquors (retail) 10,078
• Merchants and dealers in wines and liquors (wholesale) 3,643
• Merchants and dealers not specified (retail) 446,262
• Merchants and dealers (wholesale), importers and shipping merchants 27,443
• Messengers, and errand and office boys 51,355
• Newspaper carriers and newsboys 5,288
• Officials of banks and insurance, trade, transportation, trust and other companies 39,900
• Packers and shippers 24,946
• Pilots 4,259
• Porters and helpers (in stores and warehouses) 24,356
• Sailors 55,899
• Salesmen and saleswomen 264,394
• Steam railroad employés (not otherwise specified) 382,750
• Stenographers and typewriters 33,418

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• Street railway employés 37,434
• Telephone and telegraph operators 52,314
• Telephone and telegraph linemen and electric light and power company employés 11,134
• Undertakers 9,891
• Weighers, gaugers, and measurers 3,860
• Other persons in trade and transportation 3,883

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Manufacturing and Mechanical Industries. 5,091,393

• Agricultural implement makers (not otherwise classified) 3,755
• Apprentices (blacksmiths') 4,244
• Apprentices (boot and shoe makers') 1,031
• Apprentices (carpenters and joiners') 6,760
• Apprentices (carriage and wagon makers') 852
• Apprentices (dressmakers') 4,340
• Apprentices (leather curriers', etc.) 421
• Apprentices (machinists') 9,738
• Apprentices (masons') 1,927
• Apprentices (milliners') 1,204
• Apprentices (painters') 2,321
• Apprentices (plumbers') 4,624
• Apprentices (printers') 4,635
• Apprentices (tailors') 2,625
• Apprentices (tinsmiths') 2,037
• Apprentices (not otherwise specified) 35,698
• Artificial flower makers 3,046
• Bakers 60,197
• Basket makers 5,225
• Blacksmiths 205,337
• Bleachers, dyers, and scourers 14,210
• Bone and ivory workers 1,691
• Bookbinders 23,858
• Boot and shoe makers and repairers 213,544
• Bottlers and mineral and soda-water makers 7,230
• Box makers (paper) 17,757
• Box makers (wood) 10,883
• Brass workers (not otherwise specified) 17,265
• Brewers and maltsters 20,362
• Brick and tile makers and terra cotta workers 60,214
• Britannia workers 904
• Broom and brush makers 10,115
• Builders and contractors 45,988
• Butchers 105,456
• Butter and cheese makers 11,211
• Button makers 2,601
• Cabinetmakers 35,915
• Candle, soap, and tallow makers 3,450
• Carpenters and joiners 611,482
• Carpet makers 22,302
• Carriage and wagon makers (not otherwise classified) 34,538
• Charcoal, coke, and lime burners 8,704
• Chemical works employés 3,628
• Clock and watch makers and repairers 25,252
• Compositors 30,060
• Confectioners 23,251

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• Coopers 47,486
• Cooper workers 3,384
• Corset makers 6,533
• Cotton mill operatives 173,142
• Distillers and rectifiers 3,314
• Door, sash, and blind makers 5,041
• Dressmakers 289,164
• Electroplaters 2,756
• Electrotypers and stereotypers 1,471
• Engravers 8,320
• Fertilizer makers 732
• Fish curers and packers 1,279
• Gas works employés 5,224
• Glass workers 34,382
• Glove makers 6,416
• Gold and silver workers 20,263
• Gunsmiths, locksmiths, and bell hangers 9,158
• Hair workers 1,254
• Harness and saddle makers and repairers 43,480
• Hat and cap makers 24,013
• Hosiery and knitting mill operatives 29,555
• Iron and steel workers 144,921
• Lace and embroidery makers 5,256
• Lead and zinc workers 4,616
• Leather curriers, dressers, finishers, and tanners 39,332
• Machinists 177,090
• Manufacturers and officials of manufacturing companies1 01,610
• Marble and stone cutters 61,070
• Masons (brick and stone) 158,918
• Meat and fruit packers, canners, and preservers 5,830
• Mechanics (not otherwise specified) 15,485
• Metal workers (not otherwise specified) 16,694
• Mill and factory operatives (not specified) 93,596
• Millers (flour and grist) 52,841
• Milliners 60,842
• Model and pattern makers 10,300
• Moulders 66,289
• Musical instrument makers (not otherwise specified) 652
• Nail and tack makers 4,583
• Oil well employés 9,147
• Oil works employés 5,624
• Painters, glaziers, and varnishers 219,912
• Paper hangers 12,369
• Paper mill operatives 27,817
• Photographers 20,840
• Piano and organ makers and tuners 14,683
• Plasterers 39,002
• Plumbers and gas and steam fitters 56,607
• Potters 14,928
• Powder and cartridge makers 1,385
• Printers, lithographers, and pressmen 86,893
• Print works operatives 6,701
• Publishers of books, maps, and newspapers 6,284
• Roofers and slaters 7,043
• Rope and cordage makers 8,001
• Rubber factory operatives 16,162
• Sail, awning, and tent makers 3,257
• Salt works employés 1,765
• Saw and planing mill employés 133,637

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• Seamstresses 150,044
• Sewing machine makers (not otherwise classified) 880
• Sewing machine operators 7,126
• Ship and boat builders 22,951
• Shirt, collar, and cuff makers 21,097
• Silk mill operatives 34,855
• Starch makers 746
• Steam boiler makers 21,339
• Stove, furnace, and grate makers 8,932
• Straw workers 3,666
• Sugar makers and refiners 2,616
• Tailors and tailoresses 185,400
• Tinners and tinware makers 55,488
• Tobacco and cigar operatives 111,385
• Tools and cutlery (not otherwise specified) 17,985
• Trunk, valise, leather case, and pocket-book makers 6,297
• Umbrella and parasol makers 3,403
• Upholsterers 25,666
• Well borers 4,854
• Wheelwrights 12,856
• Whitewashers 3,996
• Wire workers 12,319
• Wood workers (not otherwise specified) 67,360
• Woolen mill operatives 84,109
• Other persons in manufacturing and mechanical industries 76,714

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INDEX.

• page
• A Better Plan [22]
• About Advertising [46]
• " Canadian Patents [73]
• " Getting Up Circulars [51]
• Acreage of Farms by States [135]
• Advertisements, How to Write [47]
• Agreement, Form of [22]
• Assignee, Grantee, and Licensee Defined [92]
• Assigning an Undivided Interest [58]
• Assignments [79]
• "Conditional [87]

• Basis for Estimation [32]
• Business Capacity of the Inventor [16]

• Canadian Cities, Population of [78]
• "Patents, About [73]
• "" Selling [76]
• Capital, Securing [20]
• Circulars [50]
• "About Getting Up [51]
• Cities in the United States, Population of [132]
• Classes of Rights, Dividing a Patent into [59]
• Commercial Value [31]
• Companies, Forming, and Manufacturing [67]
• " Stock in Stock [36]
• " To Organize Stock [68]
• Conditional Assignments [87]
• Correspondence as a Means of Bringing Patents Before Interested Parties [48]

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• Danger in an Undivided Interest [26]
• Decisions and Notes [79]
• "Assignments [79]
• "Licenses [82]
• "Patent Title [84]
• "Territorial Grants [76]
• Demand for Inventions of Merit [9]
• Dividing Patents into Classes of Rights [59]
• Drawings, Working [53]

• Estimating Prices for State Rights [38]
• Estimation, Basis for [32]
• Exhibit of Inventions [25]

• Farms in Each State, Number, Acreage and Value of [135]
• First Impressions All-important [52]
• Form, Assignment of an Undivided Interest [96]
• " " of Entire Interest [94]
• " Grant of a Territorial Interest [97]
• " License, Exclusive With Royalty [102]
• " "Non-exclusive With Royalty [100]
• " "Shop-right [99]
• " of Agreement (Securing Capital) [22]
• Forming Companies, and Manufacturing [67]
• Forms, Legal, of Value to Patentees [92]

• General Rules for Valuation [33]
• Grantee [86]
• Granting Licenses [62]
• Grants, Territorial [81]

• How Rating for Royalty Is Figured [33]
• " to Arrive at the Value of a Patent [30]
• "" Conduct the Sale of Patents [41], [55]
• "" Correspond with Manufacturers [49]
• "" Write an Advertisement [47]

• Illustrations for Circulars [50]
• In Case the Patentee Cannot Undertake Selling [44]
• Income from Inventions [13]
• Independence Through Successful Invention [13]
• Industrial Progress Based upon Patent System [11]
• Inventions as a Poor Man's Opportunity [18]
• " Exhibit of [25]

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• " Income from [13]
• " of Merit, Demand for [9]
• " Perfecting [24]
• " Value of Record of [26]
• Inventor, Business Capacity of the [16]

• Law, the Language of [93]
• Laws, State, on Selling Patents [88]
• Legal Forms of Value to Patentees [92]
• Licensee [86]
• Licenses, Decisions [82]
• " Granting [62]

• Manufacturers, How to Correspond with [49]
• Manufacturing, and Forming Companies [67]
• Map of the United States [106]
• Methods of Selling Patents [45]
• Models, Value of [52]
• Money in Patents [15]
• Monopoly in Patents [10]
• Mortgages [86]
• Must Be Recorded (Transfer of Patents) [86]

• Newspaper Notoriety [27]
• Number of Farms in Each State [135]

• Occupations, Table of [137]
• Official Census of the United States for 1910 [107]
• Organizing Stock Companies [68]
• Outright Assignments [58]

• Patent, How to arrive at the Value of a [30]
• " Selling Agencies [41]
• " System, Industrial Progress Based upon [11]
• " Title [79]
• Patents, Canadian [73]
• " Copies, How to Secure [51]
• " How to Conduct the Sale of [41], [55]
• " Money in [15]
• " Monopoly in [10]
• " Prejudice against [26]
• " State Laws on [88]
• " Unprofitable [14]
• Pecuniary value [30]

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• Perfecting Inventions [24]
• Personal Influence, Value of [56]
• " Solicitation Advisable [56]
• Pigeon-holing Patents [65]
• Placing upon Royalty [64]
• Population of Canadian Cities [78]
• " " Cities of the United States, 1910 [132]
• " " Counties of Each State, 1910 [107]
• Prejudice against Patents [26]
• Prices of Territorial Rights [37]
• Printed Copies of Patents, Uses of [51]

• Recorded, Must Be (Transfer of Patents) [86]
• Royalty, How Rating for, Is Figured [35]
• " Placing upon [64]
• Rules for Valuation, General [33]
• " of Practice [85]
• " " " Assignees [86]
• " " " Assignments [85]
• " " " Conditional Assignments [87]
• " " " Licensees [86]
• " " " Grantees [86]
• " " " Mortgages [86]
• " " " Must Be Recorded [86]

• Sale of Patents, How to Conduct [41], [55]
• Securing Capital [20]
• Selling Agencies, Patent [41]
• " Agent, The Patentee the Best [43]
• " by Territorial Rights [61]
• " Canadian Patents [76]
• " In Case Patentee Cannot Undertake the [44]
• " Outright [58]
• " Patents, Methods of [45]
• Solicitation, Personal, Advisable [56]
• State Laws on Selling Patents [88]
• "Rights, Table for Estimating Prices of [38]
• Statistics and Tables [107]
• Stock Companies, To Organize [68]
• " in Stock Companies [36]
• "Squeezed," To Avoid Being [25]

• Table of Occupations [137]
• Tables, Statistics and [107]

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• " Valuation [37]
• Territorial Grants [81]
• "Rights, Prices for [37]
• " " Selling by [61]
• The Language of Law [92]
• " Patentee the Best Selling Agent [43]
• Title, Patent [84]
• To Avoid Being "Squeezed" [25]
• To Organize Stock Companies [68]
• Trading as a Last Resort [71]

• Uses of Printed Copies (Patents) [51]
• Undivided Interest, Assigning an [59]
• " " Dangers in an [20]
• United States, Map of the [106]
• " " Population of Cities of the [132]
• " " " " by Counties, 1910 [107]
• Unprofitable Patents [14]

• Valuation, General Rules for [33]
• " Tables [37]
• Value, Commercial [31]
• " of Farms, by States, 1910 [135]
• " " Models [52]
• " " Patent, How to Arrive at the [30]
• " " Personal Influence [56]
• " " Record of Invention [26]
• " " Pecuniary [30]

• Working Drawings [54]

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