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August 17, 2011 03:05 pm

USPTO Issues 8,000,000th Patent

toybuilder writes "It took nearly 80 years for the first 1 million patents to issue in the U.S. On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued its eighth-million patent. This most recent 1 million patents took only about 5 years."

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