Concerned that his idea might be pirated, Davis asked Levi Strauss to help him with a patent application. A preliminary application was approved in July 1872, and the full patent granted on May 20 ...

Davis sold his tailor shop property to Levi Strauss on May 27. The frame building was destroyed Oct. 29, 1873 in Reno's first great fire. More: Lost treasures of Nevada and the Sierra — Donner ...

The story of Levi Strauss & Co, the iconic $4.7 billion maker of jeans and pants, is a testament to building trust between buyer and supplier.

Levi Strauss (.pdf) -- himself an immigrant from Bavaria -- arrived in San Francisco 20 years earlier, at the height of the California gold rush, to establish a wholesale dry-goods business. From ...

On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received the first patent for blue jeans. Within a century, they were a global fashion staple.

Sales of Davis's riveted overalls increased during the following months, and he approached San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss to be a partner and to help acquire a patent on his invention, which ...

On May 20, 1873, an icon American fashion was born, or at least patented, when the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 139,121, titled Fastening Pocket-Openings. The ...

1873: Blue jeans assume their distinctive form when a patent is issued for the rivet process used to strengthen the pockets on what were then called “waist overalls.” Jacob Youphes, a Latvian ...