Assertion: patent act | /r/HasProperty | passed
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text: House Resolution 41 is the reason for why the Patent Act of 1790 did not provide for patents of importation when it was finally passed.
text: Congress removed the examination process three years after the 1790 Patent Act was passed, and inventions no longer needed to be deemed as "sufficiently useful and important" to be granted a patent.