Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

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Golden Age of Invention: Brooke's Bill

Anton Howes
Oct 28, 2021
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In researching Part II of my series on the Statute of Monopolies, I accidentally stumbled across something very exciting. It’s a bill debated in England’s parliament in 1601, that actually would have created a statutory patent system — something the country would not see until the 1850s!

But in many respects it was too ahead of its time. At its first re…

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