This Alicante-based Kat has been enjoying her sea view with a good book in paws: ‘Once upon a time, the patent’ by Pascal Attali (2022, 304 pp). The first part of the book is devoted to the history of patent law. I will mention several interesting episodes in this connection covered in Attali’s book. The storyline opens in the 14th-century Venice, where guilds are protecting their know-how through mechanisms of secrecy, which do not allow craftsmen to leave the guild … (more)
[Anastasiia Kyrylenko, The IPKat, 24 August 2022]
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