J. Owden O'Brien and Son, of Manchester, chartered patent agents.
circa 1876-1983
Archives
Total copies: 1
Records including clients accounts, 1905-1972 (12 volumes, arranged alphabetically by client's name), miscellaneous ledgers, 1923-1964 (5 volumes), day books, 1956-1961 (2 volumes), analysed accounts, 1946-1974, and other financial papers; wages books, 1972-1974 (2 volumes); registers and rough books of patent applications, 1927-1972 (7 volumes); registers of British and foreign applications filed, 1951/2-1960 (2 volumes); register of foreign patents, circa 1928-1959; volume of cards - British and foreign trade marks and patents, circa 1928-1956 (filed under client name); registers of renewal dates for British patents, trade marks and designs, circa 1876-1958 (3 volumes) and foreign patents, circa 1911-1962 (2 volumes); out-letters to clients, 1960-1965 (20 volumes), agents, 1947-1965 (19 volumes) and Comptrollers at the Patent Office in London 1949-1965 (21 volumes); notes on the firm, 1983; notes on the Rolls-Royce Merlin III (aircraft engine), 1940.
Place:/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
J. Owden O'Brien and Son, of Manchester, chartered patent agents.
Date of work:
circa 1876-1983
Reference number:
GB127.M471
Level of description:
Fonds
Custodial history:
J. Owden O'Brien commenced business under his own name in 1902, having previously conducted the business of the Manchester office of the Liverpool firm W.P. Thompson and Co. as an acting partner. The firm became J. Owden O'Brien and Son in 1929 and remained in family hands until 1982.
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Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7195848