Re: United States Patent 1840521

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2013/5/13 13:25:17

Gusha, is your post a subliminal nudge at at trying to get me off dead center and start my next article on Packard patents? I have what I believe to be all 1737 U.S. Patents assigned to Packard Motor Car Co. (no Studebaker-Packard patents in the mix) and a few prior to that assigned to J. W. Packard, Hatcher and a few others. I've been procrastinating for a while about this article, trying to think of an approach that will be interesting without getting bogged down in technical stuff. One thought was to follow the inventors more than the inventions, for example who were the top 5 inventors, what inventors had patents over 4 decades, which inventors had specialized areas of endeavor, how many of the patents related to non-automotive work (a lot, on aircraft and marine engines, no surprise there!), etc. Just looking at the number of granted patents by decade, it pretty much parallels Packard's image as a luxury supplier with peak reached in the late 20s, and early 30s and dropping off quite dramatically after that.

I'd appreciate suggestions from readers here what would be an interesting approach for this research and publication.