Under construction

Looking at Marked Patent Buttons from several countries.

( with  digressions )

Buttons marked with initials are thanks to:  CC.  Carol Cienna ;  FT. Fred Tatman   GV. Gerard Van.  Spares are marked s.

Australia    www.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents with the promise of archived patents in the future. The online database is covers from 1975 on. Currently the only pattern I am aware of buttons uniquely Australian is the overly large integral shank on single piece anodised alluminium buttons.  There is a girl guide button green plastic marked `copyright' possibly Australian- which is the location of the site featuring it. image and or  spare ANYONE ? The lady owning the site doesn't respond to her email.

Canada  has a web presence at: Canadian Intellectual Property Office. www.opic.gc.ca    Current: patent; trade mark; design registrations; copyright information. The patents online database covers roughly the last 75 years.

France:   MYPAGE

Germany:  MYPAGE

 Ireland & Scotland   both had independent systems from England & Wales before 1853 . Manuscript copies of the Scottish patent series are available at The National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh some indexes are available at British library.  Records in Ireland were destroyed in 1922 but references to them survive in the King’s Letter Books for 1776-1915 and the Signet Office Irish Letter Books which list patents to 1826.

Irish Parents Office www.patentsoffice.ie   Patents, registered designs & trade marks.

There are two information centers. Patents Office, Government Buildings, Hebron Road, Kilkenny & Patents Information Center, Ground Floor, The Earlsfort Centre, Lower hatch Street, Dublin 2.  The Link to Patent Office Registers provides some legislation details from 1927 to date and in greater detail1992 on under Legislation link.  

Unallocated patent (?) buttons. 

United Kingdom    PAGE   

United States of America.    

The United States Patent and Trademark office has extensive free downloads of historic patents see USA Archives section. There is a series of links at www.intellectual-property.gov.uk /std /resources /patents/offices_worldwide.htm   Better still for the uninitiated or less technically gifted, ( like me),  as the above is a complex search engine go to:

Google Patent Search:  searches for US Patents  http://www.google.com/ptshp?ie=UTF-8&rls=ADBS,ADBS:2007-07,ADBS:en&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wt&q=

which easier to use than the search engine at the US Patent Office site but you could follow this link http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/uspc079/sched079.htm#C079S003000  from http://www.iwantbuttons.com 

Ready sorted and easy to use is Paul Rice's excellent and growing database http://www.buttoncountry.com/patents.htm