Munn & Co.

American patent agent Munn & Co. was recorded as being at address 361 Broadway, New York, N.Y., with registration number 77. In 1865 the company's address was 37 Park Row.

Munn & Co. published Scientific American magazine from the 1850s or earlier. Key people were Orson Desaix Munn and Alfred Ely Beach, involved in something called the U.S. Patent Agency and in cross-over promotion of patents using the magazine.

An example of crossover: Munn & Co. filed Patent US-1892-502168 and then shortly thereafter published "[Publication 1473, 1892, Battey's aerial ship A New Air Ship]" highlighting this invention and noting that a patent had been filed. (This patent was also international filings, with known patent agents in England and France; one wonders if these agencies had special relationships with Munn.)

We also have Fred G. Dieterich appearing among witnesses on a patent filed by Cornele Berrien Adams on which Munn & Co. serve as the patent attorneys.

The company also published books about patents, inventions, science, etc., including:

• Munn & Co, 1860, Patent laws of the United States ([2])
• Munn & Co., 1865, The United States Patent Law ([3]) (1871)
• Byrn, 1900, The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century ([4])
• Cresee, 1902, Practical Pointers for Patentees ([5])
• Munn, 1915, Trade Marks, Trade Names and Unfair Competition in Trade ([6])
• Hopkins, 1917, Our Country and its Resources ([7])

More is on en.wp under the name Orson Munn.

References

Patents for which Munn & Co. was the patent agent

• Patent US-1884-297773 (Inventors: William J. Ferguson, English title: Gas-pump)
• Patent US-1861-33797 (Inventors: Watson F. Quimby, English title: Apparatus for Navigating the Air)
• Patent US-1862-35236 (English title: Wind-wheels)
• Patent US-1889-397647 (Inventors: John P. Holmes, English title: Air-ship)
• Patent US-1868-73583 (Inventors: Morgan O. Davis, English title: Improvement in churn-dasher)
• Patent US-1860-28905 (Inventors: John Rix • John S. Shaw, English title: Rotary engine)
• Patent US-1861-31099 (Inventors: S. C. Abbot, English title: Improvement in projectiles for ordnance)
• Patent US-1861-33165 (Inventors: Josiah J. Sherman, English title: Improvement in balloons)
• Patent US-1862-35103 (Inventors: Jedediah Morse • William Mansfield • H. H. Mansfield, English title: Improvement in projectiles for ordnance, &c)
• Patent US-1862-35437 (Inventors: Luther C. Crowell, English title: Improvement in aerial machines)
• Patent US-1862-35503 (Inventors: W. E. Browne, English title: Improvement in explosive projectiles for ordnance)
• Patent US-1863-40608 (Inventors: James H. Connell, English title: Balloons)
• Patent US-1864-45665 (Inventors: A. G. Wright, English title: Balloon)
• Patent US-1865-50338 (Inventors: M. Grier Collins, English title: Improved feathering paddle-wheel)
• Patent US-1866-56103 (Inventors: Jacob L. Rust, English title: Churn)
• Patent US-1867-68789 (Inventors: Watson F. Quinby, English title: Flying apparatus)
• Patent US-1869-90465 (Inventors: William C. Rice, English title: Improvement in paddle-wheels)
• Patent US-1869-95513 (Inventors: Watson F. Quinby, English title: Flying-Machines)
• Patent US-1870-106862 (Inventors: Edward Oakes, English title: Aerial car)
• Patent US-1871-114016 (Inventors: William F. Jones, English title: Improvement in churn-dashers)
• Patent US-1871-116018 (Inventors: Lewis Burger, English title: Improvement in office-indicators)
• Patent US-1872-132022 (Inventors: Watson F. Quinby, English title: Improvement in flying apparatus)
• Patent US-1873-143822 (Inventors: Miller F. Graves, English title: Ice-cream freezers)
• Patent US-1873-144021 (Inventors: James H. Dugan • George Moncrief, English title: Improvement in umbrellas)
• Patent US-1875-161942 (Inventors: William M. Fisk, English title: Improvement in fastenings for tool-handles)
• Patent US-1875-183009 (Inventors: Charles G. Kellogg, English title: Projectiles)
• Patent US-1876-187633 (Inventors: William S. Hull, English title: Improvement in screw-propellers)
• Patent US-1877-190730 (Inventors: Frank Barnett, English title: Flying-Machine)
• Patent US-1878-202750 (Inventors: William Fletcher Pearson, English title: Balloon)
• Patent US-1878-205319 (Inventors: James Tracy, English title: Balloon)
• Patent US-1878-210238 (Inventors: John F. Cameron, English title: Air ship)
• Patent US-1879-218573 (Inventors: Watson F. Quinby, English title: Arrows)
• Patent US-1879-224244 (Inventors: Andy Evensen Tangen, English title: Fastening for tool-handles)
• Patent US-1879-225999 (Inventors: Thomas Choate Pratt • Herman J. S. Lewis, English title: Feathering paddle-wheel)
• Patent US-1880-234947 (Inventors: Frederick William Brearey, English title: Aerial apparatus, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1879-2376)
• Patent US-1880-235792 (Inventors: John Finlayson Mackenzie, English title: Aerial navigation)
• Patent US-1881-245768 (Inventors: William Beeson, English title: Flying ship)
• Patent US-1883-291990 (Inventors: Kansas D. Davis, English title: Balloon-propeller)
• Patent US-1884-293735 (Inventors: John C. Henderson, English title: Marine electric messenger)
• Patent US-1884-294526 (Inventors: Joseph Stumpp, English title: Folding kite)
• Patent US-1885-338173 (Inventors: Ringert Jongewaard, English title: Aerial navigation)
• Patent US-1886-342756 (Inventors: Lewis E. Morrison, English title: Folding bedstead)
• Patent US-1887-361855 (Inventors: William Beeson, English title: Aerial navigation)
• Patent US-1886-367610 (Inventors: James Fairman, English title: Aerial Photography)
• Patent US-1887-371759 (Inventors: William Nelson Hutchinson, English title: Aerial vessel)
• Patent US-1888-376937 (Inventors: William Beeson, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1888-381674 (Inventors: Amos H. Carpenter, English title: Feathering-paddle wheel)
• Patent US-1888-391507 (Inventors: Charles W. Burgess • William Franklin Fleharty, English title: Tail for kites, Applicant firm: Bostwick & Burgess Mfg. Co.)
• Patent US-1888-398984 (Inventors: Reuben Jasper Spalding, English title: Human-powered flapping wings with balloon)
• Patent US-1889-399783 (Inventors: Herman A. J. Rieckert, English title: Airship)
• Patent US-1890-430343 (Inventors: Carl G. E. Hennig, English title: Air-ship)
• Patent US-1890-430821 (Inventors: James H. Baxter • German Levi Baxter, English title: Garden implement)
• Patent US-1890-442476 (Inventors: William Bowman, English title: Projectile)
• Patent US-1890-443964 (Inventors: Andrew L. Hinchman, English title: Stock-hitching device)
• Patent US-1892-473344 (Inventors: William Nelson Riddle, English title: Aerial ship)
• Patent US-1892-502168 (Inventors: Sumter Beauregard Battey, English title: Aerial Machine)
• Patent US-1892-503026 (Inventors: George O. Adams, English title: Scull-propeller)
• Patent CA-1894-45512 (Inventors: Francis Eugene Mills • Horace Atwater Deming, English title: Body for vessels)
• Patent US-1893-510758 (Inventors: Cornele Berrien Adams, English title: Method of Photogrammetry)
• Patent US-1893-514287 (Inventors: Sigmund Spaeth, English title: Aerial Vessel)
• Patent US-1894-542100 (Inventors: Estanislao Caballero de los Olivos, English title: Aerial Navigation)
• Patent US-1896-556621 (Inventors: Manoel Vianna Coutinho, English title: Aerostat)
• Patent US-1896-563066 (Inventors: Thomas Jefferson Rogers, English title: Trolley for kites)
• Patent US-1897-592704 (Inventors: Jacob D. Graybill, English title: Aerial machine)
• Patent US-1898-598802 (Inventors: David Morgan, English title: Water wheel)
• Patent US-1898-626071 (Inventors: Joseph Matthews, English title: Stop mechanism for engines)
• Patent US-1901-668375 (Inventors: Aristarchus F. Hubbard, English title: Air Ship)
• Patent US-1901-677179 (Inventors: Alvis F. Croom, English title: Projectile)
• Patent US-1900-688135 (Inventors: John Spies, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1901-688584 (Inventors: Robert Henry Botts, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1901-698374 (Inventors: Elmer E. Cline, English title: Tooth and base for phosphate-logs, Applicant firm: Ocala Foundry and Machine Works)
• Patent US-1902-713441 (Inventors: Samuel Irwin, English title: Propeller)
• Patent US-1903-737256 (Inventors: Thomas Anthony MacDonald, English title: Motor driven by water-currents)
• Patent US-1902-737947 (Inventors: Isaac I. Morris, English title: Machine for aerial navigation)
• Patent US-1902-742693 (Inventors: Carey Alan Manker, English title: Marine propeller)
• Patent US-1903-784345 (Inventors: Bruce Reaves Pepper, English title: Bicycle attachment)
• Patent US-1904-792154 (Inventors: George McMullen, English title: Aeronautic apparatus)
• Patent US-1906-837784 (Inventors: Émile-Médéric Bossuet, English title: Dirigible balloon, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1903-333745)
• Patent US-1904-851481 (Inventors: Thomas S. Baldwin, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent CA-1904-89753 (Inventors: Arey Van Winegarden, English title: Propeller for air ships, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1904-14327)
• Patent US-1905-826908 (Inventors: David Thomas, English title: Anchor for air-ships)
• Patent US-1905-852292 (Inventors: Tony Orgren, English title: Aerial vessel)
• Patent US-1907-856876 (Inventors: William Hull, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1908-881837 (Inventors: Gustave Whitehead, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1906-845539 (Inventors: James A. Elston, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1906-850800 (Inventors: John Shukwech, English title: Airship)
• Patent US-1907-853760 (Inventors: George Bold, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1906-856003 (Inventors: David Thomas, English title: Anchor for air-ships)
• Patent US-1906-856895 (Inventors: Lycortes D. Merrick, English title: Aerial vessel)
• Patent US-1907-864672 (Inventors: Charles McCormick, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1906-897504 (Inventors: Alexander V. Wilson, English title: Flying machine)
• Patent US-1907-867029 (Inventors: Albert Hugo Friedel, English title: Propeller)
• Patent US-1907-869019 (Inventors: John D. Pursell, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1907-873542 (Inventors: George Halliday, English title: Aerial Vessel)
• Patent US-1908-879779 (Inventors: Edgar F. Leeds, English title: Air-ship)
• Patent US-1907-882457 (Inventors: Emil Robert Ernst, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1908-1078455 (Inventors: Carl Edgar Myers, English title: Airship)
• Patent US-1909-910773 (Inventors: Heinrich Bea, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1908-917513 (Inventors: Malcolm Grover Adams, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1909-927289 (Inventors: Matthew B. Sellers, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1908-951615 (Inventors: Leo Covington Kincannon, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1908-955049 (Inventors: Gustave H. Brekke, English title: Air-Ship)
• Patent US-1908-966151 (Inventors: Malcolm Grover Adams, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1908-998978 (Inventors: Ernest Alfred Norris, English title: Aerial vessel)
• Patent US-1909-1003851 (Inventors: Peter Zampol • Charles Zampol, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1909-1003858 (Inventors: Malcolm Grover Adams, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1909-1003859 (Inventors: Malcolm Grover Adams, English title: Flying machine)
• Patent US-1909-1005232 (Inventors: Christian F. Kohlruss, English title: Flying machine, actually odd HTA with propulsion propellers both front and back, and cloth lift surfaces)
• Patent US-1909-1068332 (Inventors: Rudolph G. Dressler, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1909-1086199 (Inventors: Ralph Mason Metcalf, English title: Flying machine)
• Patent CA-1909-126457 (Inventors: Edward Hoult, English title: Propelling and steering device for airships)
• Patent US-1909-952886 (Inventors: Rudolph G. Dressler, English title: Amusement flying-machine)
• Patent US-1909-968734 (Inventors: John M. Biggs, English title: Aeroplane flying-machine)
• Patent US-1909-969627 (Inventors: Edward Hoult, English title: Propelling and steering device for airships, Supplementary to patent: Patent CA-1909-126457)
• Patent US-1911-982079 (Inventors: Thomas A. Macdonald, English title: Water-wheel mechanism)
• Patent CA-1912-143021 (Inventors: John Washington Wadsworth, English title: Airship, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1909-989455)
• Patent US-1909-989455 (Inventors: John Washington Wadsworth, English title: Airship)
• Patent US-1909-991259 (Inventors: Edgar Murry Yates, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1909-997860 (Inventors: Matthew B. Sellers, English title: Aerial navigation, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1909-927289)
• Patent US-1910-1003756 (Inventors: Leo Covington Kincannon, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1910-1004558 (Inventors: Charles H. Duncan, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1910-1004559 (Inventors: Charles H. Duncan, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1910-1005908 (Inventors: Charles Michael Wanzer, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1910-1005941 (Inventors: Edgar John Crawford, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1910-1006846 (Inventors: James Hayton, English title: Revolving plane)
• Patent US-1911-1010946 (Inventors: Harold Foster Parker, English title: Balancing means for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1910-1027372 (Inventors: Menzo M. Benster, English title: Flying machine)
• Patent US-1910-1028071 (Inventors: George Hipwood • Patrick Egan, English title: Equipoiser)
• Patent US-1910-1052949 (Inventors: Ira J. Paddock, English title: Sinusoid propeller)
• Patent US-1910-1081828 (Inventors: John Griffin Hanna, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1910-1086916 (Inventors: Arthur Erritt Holbrook, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1910-987439 (Inventors: Harold Mason de Graw, English title: Balancing-gear for airships)
• Patent US-1910-988681 (Inventors: Charles Michael Wanzer, English title: Aeroplane-propeller)
• Patent US-1910-997122 (Inventors: Otto A. Fenn, English title: Flying machine)
• Patent US-1910-999992 (Inventors: Thaddeus Sidney Harris, English title: Propeller for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1911-1012559 (Inventors: Morris Kalaba, English title: Aeroplane with inflatable bags)
• Patent US-1911-1022846 (Inventors: James Albert Irving, English title: Propeller)
• Patent US-1911-1024941 (Inventors: Frederick C. Lambert, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1912-1028765 (Inventors: Richard H. Milton, English title: Airship-propeller)
• Patent US-1911-1032050 (Inventors: Harry Houlette Elliott, English title: Aerial propeller)
• Patent US-1911-1032233 (Inventors: Francis Nyilas, English title: Stability device)
• Patent US-1911-1034958 (Inventors: Reuben Leroy Bernard, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1911-1037657 (Inventors: Albert E. Petrucci, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1911-1037704 (Inventors: Samuel S. Yarrington, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1911-1037800 (Inventors: Fred Louis Schaufler, English title: Flying-machine, Applicant firm: National Aerial Navigation & Equipment Co.)
• Patent US-1911-1049820 (Inventors: Armand-Jean-Auguste Deperdussin, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1911-1061917 (Inventors: Silas N. Malterner, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1911-1063802 (Inventors: Greenhow Johnston, English title: Aeroplane, Applicant firm: Virginia Aerial Manufacturing Company)
• Patent US-1911-1066346 (Inventors: Ernest Peter Vincent, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent CA-1911-143655 (Inventors: Charles Michael Wanzer, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1912-1054484 (Inventors: John Anderson, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1912-1076644 (Inventors: William Lafayette Quick, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1912-1081137 (Inventors: Adolf Freiherr Odkolek von Augezd, English title: Parachute, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1913-59404 • Patent AT-1913-59461)
• Patent US-1912-1084831 (Inventors: Melvin Vaniman, English title: Speed and Direction Indicator for Airships)
• Patent US-1913-1094989 (Inventors: Eli Edward Gregory, English title: Water, land, and air machine)
• Patent US-1913-1102016 (Inventors: Georges Desaulles, English title: Propelling or receiving fluid reaction machine especially applicable to aerial navigation)
• Patent US-1913-1117901 (Inventors: Joseph R. Polizzi, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1913-1158333 (Inventors: Alexander Blair Thaw, English title: Stabilizer for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1914-1125850 (Inventors: John R. Junkin, English title: Stabilizing means for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1914-1151419 (Inventors: Alexander Blair Thaw, English title: Speed-controller for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1915-1155846 (Inventors: John J. Strong, English title: Counterbalancing device)
• Patent US-1914-1169695 (Inventors: Alexander Blair Thaw, English title: Stabilizer for aeroplanes)
• Patent CA-1914-157764 (Inventors: Eli Edward Gregory, English title: Water, land, and air machine, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1913-1094989)
• Patent US-1915-1181784 (Inventors: John McCurry, English title: Hovering-flight aeroplane system)
• Patent US-1916-1183683 (Inventors: Charles Henry Hamilton Scott, English title: Airship)
• Patent US-1915-1200251 (Inventors: Albert Herbert Smith, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1915-1201763 (Inventors: Emile Rimailho, English title: Artillery-projectile, Applicant firm: Cie Forges Et Acieries Marine)
• Patent US-1915-1291254 (Inventors: Alexander Blair Thaw, English title: Actuator for aeroplane-stabilizers)
• Patent CA-1915-168371 (Inventors: Alexander Blair Thaw, English title: Speed controller for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1916-1212109 (Inventors: Ernest C. Rodwick, English title: Wind-motor)
• Patent US-1916-1213000 (Inventors: Louis Philip Perew, English title: Hydroaeroplane)
• Patent US-1916-1227200 (Inventors: Harry E. Rose, English title: Propelling device)
• Patent US-1917-1244367 (Inventors: Prokop Jack Prokop, English title: Airship)
• Patent US-1918-1255105 (Inventors: Michael F. Morrissey, English title: Flying-machine)
• Patent US-1918-1279133 (Inventors: Richard McMyers, English title: Stabilizer)
• Patent US-1917-1338874 (Inventors: Richard M. Shaffer, English title: Aeroplane-propeller)
• Patent US-1918-1299111 (Inventors: Ovila W. Boyea, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1919-1299117 (Inventors: George Tellman Buchanan, English title: Airplane)
• Patent US-1918-1356329 (Inventors: James Sloan Adams, English title: Propelling means for aeroplanes)
• Patent US-1918-1360182 (Inventors: Salustio Valdés Cortés, English title: Method for propulsion of ships, boats, and flying-machines, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1918-124012)
• Patent US-1918-1366067 (Inventors: William Leslie Denham, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1918-1371815 (Inventors: Harry E. Rose, English title: Aeroplane)
• Patent US-1920-1419962 (Inventors: William Leslie Denham, English title: Aeroplane)