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As America celebrates its 239th birthday and people across the nation celebrate freedom, let's take a look at some of our founding fathers’ lesser known contributions to this great country.
Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine were accomplished inventors, on top of being democratic trailblazers. Without the freedom to invent, America wouldn’t be the global economic powerhouse it is today. Learn below why strong patent laws have been crucial to our success, even before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
WASHINGTON D.C. – A broad coalition of groups have issued letters and statements expressing opposition to H.R. 9 in its current form, including:
Association of American Universities (AAU)
America Conservative Union (ACU)
Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
California Life Sciences Association (CLSA)
Club for Growth
Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform (21C)
Eagle Forum
Heritage Action
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA (IEEE-USA)
Christopher Latham Sholes- U.S. Patent # 207,559 issued August 27, 1878
Mary Dixon Kies- U.S. Patent # Unknown (lost in U.S. Patent Office fire of 1836)
For the first 144 years of its existence, women were not treated as equal citizens of the United States of America. In fact, they weren’t even allowed to vote until the women’s suffrage movement, led by Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and many others achieved the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Zeppo Marx - United States patent #3,426,747
There is an old expression: “Serious as a heart attack.” Clearly, cardiac health is not something that people joke around about. For that reason, it is more than a little ironic that a lifesaving invention for measuring the regularity of a heartbeat came from one of America’s most beloved comedy troupe members. But that’s exactly what Zeppo Marx, of the renowned Marx Brothers, created with his cardiac pulse rate monitor.
