Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
by nine_k on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:28AM
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You are correct when you are talking about the origin of British patent law. There a king could grant a patent for a wide range of monopolies, including practicing a particular craft only by guild members, etc.
The US patent law, which I referred to, is not as old, and it definitely talked only about inventions, and explicitly required drawings, explanations, etc to be made available: [1]
Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
by gdhbcc on Saturday November 09, 2019 @04:56AM
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Given that american patent law was created originally as a copy of british patent law, through the statute of Anne, that distinction is irrelevant or even misleading.
The US patent law, which I referred to, is not as old, and it definitely talked only about inventions, and explicitly required drawings, explanations, etc to be made available: [1]
[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AUnited_States_Statutes...