The reward theory dates at least from the first general patent statute of the ventian Republic in 1479. After that during the Tudor Kings in England a statute of Monopolies enacted in 1623. The Act barred monopolies solely from the buying, selling, making, working or using of any thing within the territory, however patents for inventions were excluded from restrictions. The Act had not only permitted patent for invention but protection patent for fourteen years of period as an exclusion right. The farmer of the US constitution acknowledging the significance of the intellectual property system and its protection for socio-economic development wrote in their constitution that congress shall have the power, "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventor the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries".
After the US Constitution, France enacted Patent Act, in 1791, which is the first of such kind of Act. Nineteenth Century took major stride in enacting patent and copyright statutes in a number of countries. As the enactment process of intellectual property rights proceeded, some anti-patent sentiments too strongly arose. As the consequence of the anti-patent sentiments Netherlands repealed it first Patent Statute in 1869 and did not enact next until 1910.
The nineteenth Century did not only stride in enacting local legislation on intellectual property but laid down major foundation for international cooperation and conclude some important international conventions.
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