This subseries consists of information concerning patents issued by Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Canadian materials consist of the original patent certificate, holding the original signature of the Commissioner and containing papers and/or drawings signed by the patent holder. German and British materials do not contain the original patent and instead contain the correspondence between the Curtiss-Wright Patent Division and international patent offices and attorneys. 2 Materials are organized by country, then by patent number.
2 Patent names and holders were determined by searching "espacenet," the search engine of the European Patent Office, http://ep.espacenet.com.
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Collection Citation:
Curtiss-Wright Corporation Archives - Patent Files, Acc. 1987-0029, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.