7,000,000 according to USPTO
In the USA alone there have been over 8,300,000 patents issued. Add to these all of the other patents in all of the other countries and you will have your answer.
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Almost all have already been removed by collectors
The Queen is given money by the HM Government called the Civil List to carry out her duties as Queen. She has a large personal fortune but the exact amount has never been disclosed
One productive resource that all people own regardless of their wealth is time. Everyone has been given time in equal measure.
In the USA alone there have been over 8,300,000 patents issued. Add to these all of the other patents in all of the other countries and you will have your answer.
US Patents are issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Their home page list two search engines. One that lets you search for patents that have been issued, and one that lets you search for patents whose applications are pending. http://patft.uspto.gov/ A number of Patent related web sites provide links to Patent Offices in other countries. Try http://www.irossco.com/patentsearching.htm as one example. Please note that many individuals or companies register their patents with the USPTO in addition to multiple jurisdictions to gain "global coverage".
No. Actually, the superscript TM is for designating trademarks in the US that have not yet been registered with the USPTO. If/when you get the trademark registered with the USPTO, you would use the ® instead.
Researching Google patents it has been discovered that they currently have 187 different patents. The very first patent that Google had was in 1972 and although it is not perfectly clear it was involving search indexing.
For patents in the USA you can search at http://patft.uspto.gov/. This site has a comprehensive search engine that gives you several ways to look through the US patent database at both issued patents and patents that are still in the application process.
In the US, 276,788 patents were awarded in calendar year 2012. A surprisingly detailed list is linked below.
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Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. There are a minimum of 278 patents issued to Tesla in 26 countries that have been accounted for.
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yes, provided the design is new, non-obvious and ornamental (as opposed to purely functional). I disagree. The patent law states: 35 U.S.C. 171Patents for designs. Whoever invents any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. I would advise my client that your webpage is already protected by copyright law. A person should do a quick search of design patents to see if other patents have been granted on web pages. There are plenty of utility patents on webpages. A webpage most likely would not be seen by the USPTO as an articles of manufacturing. Hope this is helpful.
Patents cover inventions, not products. Some products may have multiple inventions, some patented, some patent pending, some not patentable at all. Some inventions are patented in one country and not in others. It would be impossible to determine which products might include patents, let alone how many of them there might have ever been in even a single country that issues patents.