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A Little Patent History (#773)
Posted: 12/1/2002; 9:17 PM by Terry Frazier
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A short, fairly basic, but useful article on patent history for those studying the topic.

Innovation and patents. Bangkok Post Dec 1 2002 5:30PM ET

[...] Any particular society's prevailing attitudes toward patents and other intellectual property rights can say as much about that society as they do about patents in any objective sense. These attitudes can be an unconscious reflex of what a particular society values and what it considers important. If it values innovation and creativity, that society will have a positive attitude. If it does not value these things, it will have a negative attitude.

Venice in the 1200s and England during the Industrial Revolution were self- confident societies. They valued innovation and had favourable attitudes. Interestingly, the same society can have different attitudes at different stages in its development. In the United States in the 1930s after the Depression, the government and courts were less favourably inclined toward patents than after World War II with the rise of the pharmaceutical industry and the development of new medicines to treat diseases that had previously been untreatable. [Moreover - IP and patents news]
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