Comment on Move over Zuck, Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for Facebook in 1845Comments−Natsu14yIt turns out that Abe does hold a patent:http://www.google.com/patents/US6469But it's patent #6469 for "A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals" There are other Lincolns in the patent database, but none of them appear to have a patent for Facebook:https://www.google.com/search?q=ininventor:%22ABRAHAM+LINCOL...I guess it does say that this patent was rejected, but this does seem somewhat suspicious that there are no records of it to be found.
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It turns out that Abe does hold a patent:
http://www.google.com/patents/US6469
But it's patent #6469 for "A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals" There are other Lincolns in the patent database, but none of them appear to have a patent for Facebook:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ininventor:%22ABRAHAM+LINCOL...
I guess it does say that this patent was rejected, but this does seem somewhat suspicious that there are no records of it to be found.