Patent roll
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The patent rolls are a series of administrative records compiled in the English, Irish, British and United Kingdom Chancery, running from 1201 to the present day.
Extract from the Patent Roll for 3 John (1201–2), as published by the Record Commission in 1835 using record type
Statute of Monopolies
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The Statute of Monopolies was an act of the Parliament of England notable as the first statutory expression of English patent law. Patents evolved from letters patent, issued by the monarch to grant m
Patent roll
…likewise copied onto the patent rolls. The system became subject to abuse in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and was eventually regulated by the Statute of Monopolies of 1624, the first statutory expression of English patent law. In 1853, responsibility for patents of invention was transferred to the newly established…
The Court of King's Bench, which the Statute of Monopolies explicitly exempted from its limitations on penal administration
Charles I, who continued abusing the patents system even after the Statute of Monopolies