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  2. Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom (often referred to as the UK IPO) is, since 2 April 2007, the operating name of The Patent Office. [1] [2] It is the official government body responsible for intellectual property rights in the UK and is an executive agency of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

  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. History of patent law - Wikipedia

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    The Patent Office Pony: A History of the Early Patent Office. Sergeant Kirkland's Press. Galvez-Behar, G. (2008). La République des inventeurs. Propriété et organisation de l'innovation en France (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. MacLeod, Christine (1988). Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English patent system, 1660 ...

  6. List of English inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1714: Patent for an apparatus regarded as the first typewriter granted to Henry Mill (c. 1683–1771). [25] 18th century: The Valentine's card first popularised. [26] 1822: The mechanical pencil patented by Sampson Mordan (1790–1843) and John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855). [27] 1831: Electromagnetic induction & Faraday's law of induction.

  7. Statute of Monopolies - Wikipedia

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    The Statute of Monopolies [1] (21 Jas. 1.c. 3) was an act of the Parliament of England notable as the first statutory expression of English patent law. Patents evolved from letters patent, issued by the monarch to grant monopolies over particular industries to skilled individuals with new techniques.

  8. Patents and Design Act 1907 - Wikipedia

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    The Act was enacted on December 31, 1907, and it aimed to consolidate and amend the laws related to patents and designs in the UK. It laid down provisions related to the grant, registration, and protection of patents and industrial designs. The Act was a significant step in providing legal protection for inventors and creators, encouraging ...

  9. 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 ...