J. Owden O'Brien
British chartered patent agent J. Owden O'Brien was a successor to and late of W. P. Thompson & Co. of Manchester, U.K., for which O'Brien was the patent agent.[1]
We have this individual acting among witnesses to American patents filed by Henry Shepley Booth, with someone O'Brien serving as the patent attorney.[2][3] That these O'Briens have a more than fair chance of being connected professionally and otherwise is one matter. That J. Owden O'Brien acts as Booth's patent agent in Great Britain and acts among witnesses to his patents filed in the United States is analogous to patterns we have established in the cases of French filing in the United States, with their French patent agents, or members within the firms, serving among witnesses. As we see below this J. Owden O'Brien serves as a Patent Agent on behalf of Henry Shepley Booth when the latter files in Great Britain.
Whether J. Owden has any connection to the American O'Brien complex fleshed out around Alfred J. O'Brien would be another matter, less definite, but very feasible.
Patents for which J. Owden O'Brien was the patent agent
- Patent GB-1905-15613 (Inventors: Henry Shepley Booth, English title: Improvements in Aerial Machines)
- Patent GB-1903-12149 (Inventors: Henry Shepley Booth, English title: Improvements in aerial machines)
- Patent GB-1903-2826 (Inventors: Georg Wellner, English title: Improvements in Aerial Machines)
- Patent GB-1908-17014 (Inventors: John Gaunt, English title: Improvements to the propulsion of vehicles, cycles, and ships)
- Patent GB-1908-22384 (Inventors: Francis Edward Baron • Mabel Baron • Frank Tingle, English title: Improvements in aerial machines)
- Patent GB-1909-11090 (Inventors: Edward Arthur Geoghegan • George Matthews Lindsay Moore-Irvine, English title: Improvements in Apparatus for Aerial Navigation, that is airplane-hybrid with ascension propellers)
- Patent GB-1909-11754 (Inventors: Edward Arthur Geoghegan • George Matthews Lindsay Moore-Irvine, English title: Improvements in Apparatus for Aerial Navigation)
- Patent GB-1908-22307 (Inventors: Francis Edward Baron • Mabel Baron • Frank Tingle, English title: Improvements in aerial machines)
- Patent GB-1908-22308 (Inventors: Francis Edward Baron • Mabel Baron • Frank Tingle, English title: Improvements in dirigibles, Supplementary to patent: Patent GB-1908-22307)
- Patent GB-1910-15 (Inventors: Thomas Buxton, English title: Improvements in the construction of two-wheeled vehicles)
- Patent GB-1910-27087 (Inventors: Ludwig Wittgenstein, English title: Propellers for aerial machines)
- Patent GB-1915-6698 (English title: Fabrics applicable for Aeroplanes and other purposes, and in Aeroplane Wings and Planes, Applicant firm: Portadown Weaving Company Limited)
- Patent GB-1917-113673 (Inventors: Allan Lindsey Anderson • Robert Anderson, English title: An Improved Locking Device for Bracing Wires or Cables of Aircraft and the like)
- Patent GB-1917-118500 (Inventors: Arthur Frederick Hawksley, English title: Improvements in Bearings for the Axles of the Wheels of Aeroplanes)
- Patent GB-1917-128630 (English title: Transparent Flexible Material applicable for Aeroplane Wings and other purposes, Applicant firm: Portadown Weaving Company Limited)
- Patent GB-1918-126911 (Inventors: Paul de Lesseps, English title: Improvements in Means for Actuating the Ailerons of Aeroplanes)
In the case of Patent GB-1893-4589 it's not completely clear (based on the source Abridgment of patent specifications), whether O'Brien was the "patent agent" or the "applicant person" (or how much of a distinction there was at the time.)
References
| Names | J. Owden O'Brien |
|---|---|
| Countries | GB |
| Locations | Manchester, Lancashire |
| Accreditations | |
| Related agents | W. P. Thompson & Co. |
