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  2. Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The forerunner of the Patent Office, the Office of the Commissioners for Patents, was established by the Patent Law Amendment Act 1852 and opened on 1 October that year. While this is claimed as the date the modern Intellectual Property Office was created it was in fact created later, along with the office of the comptroller under section 82 of ...

  3. Letters patent (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1900, creating the office of Governor-General of Australia as part of the process of federation.. Letters patent (always in the plural; abbreviated to LsP by the Crown Office), in the United Kingdom, are legal instruments generally issued by the monarch granting an office, right, title (in the peerage and baronetage), or status to a person (and ...

  4. Patent roll - Wikipedia

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    The patent rolls comprise a register of the letters patent issued by the Crown, and sealed "open" with the Great Seal pendent, expressing the sovereign's will on a wide range of matters of public interest, including – but not restricted to – grants of official positions, lands, commissions, privileges and pardons, issued both to individuals and to corporations.

  5. Bennet Woodcroft - Wikipedia

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    Woodcroft patented fundamental improvements in textile machinery and ship propulsion, and this in turn led to an absorbing interest in the history of the patent procedure. As a result of a reorganisation of the British Patent Office in 1852, he became Superintendent of Specifications. This gave him the opportunity to develop a private ...

  6. History of patent law - Wikipedia

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    The English patent system evolved from its early medieval origins into the first modern patent system that recognised intellectual property in order to stimulate invention; this was the crucial legal foundation upon which the Industrial Revolution could emerge and flourish.

  7. Sarah Guppy - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Maria Beach was born in Birmingham, England, and baptised in November 1770 as a daughter of Richard and Mary Beach. [6] She married Samuel Guppy in 1795. In 1811 she patented the first of her inventions, a method of making safe piling for bridges.