📚 Patents

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Below are the 30 works carrying the subject patents in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents	1858	240
	Patents for inventions	Great Britain. Patent Office.	1870	58
	The register of patent agents	Chartered Institute of Patent Agents	1969	30
	Patents for inventions	Great Britain. Patent Office	1859	21
	International Patent Classification	World Intellectual Property Organization	1975	18
	Patent it yourself	David Pressman	1979	16
	Copyright, trademarks, and patent	Abraham Drassinower	2015	13
	Patent law and practice	Herbert F. Schwartz	1988	11
	Software Patents	Gregory A. Stobbs	1995	10
	Intellectual property	Otieno-Odek.	2005	10
	A brief inquiry into the principles, effect, and present state of the American patent system	Henry Howson	1872	8
	Patents	Great Britain. Patent Office.	1974	8
	Information Sources in Patents	Stephen Adams	2006	7
	The evolution of useful things	Henry Petroski	1992	6
	Patent fundamentals for scientists and engineers	Thomas T. Gordon	1995	6
	Antibody Patenting	Jürgen Meier	2019	6
	Patent fundamentals	Leon H. Amdur	1941	5
	Patent searching made easy	Hitchcock, David	1999	5
	How to make patent drawings	Jack Lo	2005	5
	Fundamentals of Patenting and Licensing for Scientists and Engineers	Matthew Y. Ma	2009	5
	Yes, we have	Stepan B. Partamian	2009	5
	Gods and Robots	Adrienne Mayor	2018	5
	The inventor's adviser, and manufacturer's handbook to patents, trade-marks, designs, copyrights, prints and labels	William C. Linton	1921	4
	Rubber latex	H. P. Stevens	1933	4
	Snack food technology	Samuel A. Matz	1976	4
	Patents, citations, and innovations	Adam B. Jaffe	1987	4
	Biopiracy	Vandana Shiva	1997	4
	Inventing for Dummies	Pamela Riddle Bird	2004	4
	Economics of the European Patent System	Dominique Guellec	2007	4
	Gene patents and collaborative licensing models	Geertrui van Overwalle	2009	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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