The journal was established as Journal of the Patent Office Society in September 1918, obtaining its current name in 1985 to include trademarks.[2] Before the first issue of the journal was published, a collection of papers, speeches, and articles written by patent examiners to guide one another on the practice of patent examination dated as early as 1914 was compiled by Charles Mortimer, collectively or informally referred to as "The Mortimer Papers", and formed the basis of what would later become the contents of the journal.[1]
^"Bilski v. Kappos"(PDF). U.S. Supreme Court. Retrieved 2022-02-10. See page 16, n.7, page 20, n.22, pages 23, 26 and 28 of Justice Stevens' concurrence