중세 이후 특허법제사에 관한 연구

This article handles with the patent history since the Middle Ages, which especially includes Venetian Patent Act as the oldest patent law in the world as well as the Statue of Monopolies in England called as the Magna Charta of the patent law. The prerogative right to grant monopolies to inventions in Europe was indiscretely given by the Crown for the purpose of supporting its own poor finances, but afterwards began to grant monopolies according to substantial law on patent. In 1850 to 1873 free trade movement which did not acknowledge monopolies in market was against pro patent. However, aggravation of the economy in Europe those days brought patent advocates again to provide opportunities to deliver a counterattack to those who asserted anti-patent, even abolition of the patent system. In the end, patent advocates successfully defeated anti-patent. Since then many countries have adopted the policy establishing their own patent acts.