Monopolies and Patents
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The Law of Intellectual Property (English)
Patents for new inventions have, in England, always been classed under the head of “monopolies” arbitrarily granted by the crown.
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Trade monopolies and patents listed among the economic grievances burdening the kingdom's commodities and manufactures.
The heavy charges of merchandise to the discouragement of trade, the multitude of monopolies, and other patents, whereby the commodities and manufactures of the kingdom are much burthened, to the great and universal grievance of your people.
The multitude of monopolies and patents, drawing with them innumerable perjuries;
The Law of Intellectual Property
The legal category treating an inventor's exclusive right as a crown-granted monopoly rather than a natural property right.
Patents for new inventions have, in England, always been classed under the head of “monopolies” arbitrarily granted by the crown.
Now the granting of monopolies—by which I mean the granting exclusively to one what is the right of all—was plainly incompatible with the Common Law.
that patents for new inventions, from being always classed among arbitrary monopolies, have always had to bear, by association, more or less of the odium which justly attaches to those violations of common right;