Transcriber’s Note:
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PATENTS
AND HOW TO GET ONE
A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
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Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2000, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by the Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, D.C., in 1997 under the title General Information Concerning Patents.
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