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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 21 No 2 (1975), 183–194
Právní ochrana vynálezů ve Francii do r. 1789
[Legal Protection of Inventions in France before 1789]
Stanislav Balík
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.612
published online: 25. 09. 2020
abstract
The pre-revolution system of legal protection of inventions in France began to take shape back in the 16th century. The first privileges to importers of new knowledge and to inventors appear in the middle of the 16th century. In addition to these numerous privileges for the foundation of manufactures emerge, but it is clearly not possible to confuse them with the privileges for the protection of inventions or imported knowledge. With all such privileges the royal power attempted to break down the obstacles put in the way of economic advance by the guild system. The system of legal protection of inventions grew from this clash of interests, it was the result of the economic policy of the royal power aiming at the expansion of production. A decisive part in the shaping of the legal protection of inventions was taken both by the royal power and by the Paris Parliament. For a time the development was rather elemental, based on customs. More systematic legislative regulation did not prevail before the end of the 17th century and the 18th century. It was just in the course of the 18th century that the fundamental aims and principles of the pre-revolution patent system were given shape, the system remaining in force until the end of the ancient regime. Together with it fell also the old system of legal protection of inventions.
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