Patent Office Decision on Strip Tickets
A dry but telling glimpse into 1870s patent law, as the Patent Office ruled against a street railway ticket redemption scheme as unoriginal.
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Scientific American · August 4, 1877 · Part 1
1 min readAn appeal from the decision of the Examiners, and confirmed by the Commissioner, has been made in the case of W. W. Bierce, for improvement in strip or ribbon tickets. The object is to use these tickets on street railways. The design was to sell these tickets in strips, with one or more tickets made to be redeemable. The decision was that this form of tickets was old, and that the system of redeeming tickets old also. The refunding of money to the possessor of certain tickets is not essentially an improved device or [...]
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