Patents.

comprising: two patents belonging to Apple Computer, Inc., naming Stephen Wozniak as inventor, regarding a process for synchronising incoming bit serial data ("Patentschrift DE 29 18 223 C2") and concerning a colour generator for the digital control of a raster-scan image display ("Patentschrift DE 29 35 746 C2"), issued by the German Patent Office (1984-1985); and c.28 accepted patent applications ("Auslegeschriften") including by Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Howard Aiken Industries, Intel Corp., Control Data Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, National Research Development Corporation, The Post Office, London, naming Thomas Flowers, Tom Kilburn, George Hoffman, Gordon E. Moore, Robert N. Noyce, Howard Aiken, Robert Birrell, Carver Mead, James McCaldin, Rudolf Meyer, James Thornton, Seymour Cray, David Edwards and others as inventors, regarding integrated semiconductor circuits, the storage of binary-coded information, light-sensitive xerographic material and other inventions, issued by the German Patent Office; and c.20 "Brevets d'Invention" naming among others Clive Sinclair, Samuel Harper, Linel Harris, John Flood, Vannevar Bush, F.C. Williams and Arthur Robinson, regarding magnetic storage systems, hydraulic pumps in motors with free pistons, electronic calculators, and other inventions, issued by the French Ministry of Industry and Commerce; all 8vo, some with technical drawings, 1952-1985, disbound, library stamps

A wide-ranging collection of patent documents, including two listing Stephen Wozniak - one of the most significant innovators of computer technology in the twentieth century, and one of the founders of Apple Computer, as inventor.

Between 1957 and 1981, the German Patent Office required the printing of an Auslegeschrift - the published notice of the examined and accepted patent application. If no objections were raised by third parties within three months, the patent was issued and the Patentschrift published. After 1981, Auslegeschriften were no longer published, the issuing of a patent following the Offenlegungsschrift (first publication of the application) which was required to be produced eighteen months after registration (Anmeldetag).