Saturday, April 27, 2013

Patents

The origin of patents can be placed in Venice, when in 1474 the Senate of the Republic enacted a decree that new and inventive devices, once put into practice, had to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them.
Then in England the Statute of Monopolies in 1624 started the modern institution of a "patent office" and with the origin of the "royal" academies the government of England (1662) and France (1666) assumed the role of evaluating and approuving the innovative features of new inventions.

Patents can be a very important documents for the history of technology. Internet sources can be found in:









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