Google tells me that they have a feature where if you type patent followed by an appropriate number they'll tell you what it is. Asside from why in fact this feature doesn't appear to work, my question is, how is the sequencing of patent numbers generated. Google's example is Patent 5123123 which is a legitemate number, I assume these are numbers for the U.S. patent office. I tried a few random numbers of the same number of digits and found nothing and then tried "1" and there doesn't appear to be a first ever patent at least not sequentially.
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