Today in 1474, the Republic of Venice established the first statutory patent system in Europe.
Bruce Bugbee in Genesis Of American Patent and Copyright: "The international patent experience of nearly 500 years has merely brought amendments or improvements upon the solid core established in Renaissance Venice."
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