Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PATENTS AND HOW TO GET ONE A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
U.S. Department of Commerce
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Mineola, New York
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.
International Standard Book Number: 0–486–41144–3
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
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