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In the reign of [[Anne of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] the rules were changed again so that a written description of the article was given. Section 6 of the Statute refers to "manner[s] of new manufacture... [by] inventors", and this section remains the foundation for patent law in New Zealand and Australia. The Statute of Monopolies was later developed by the courts to produce modern patent law; this innovation was soon adopted by other countries.
 
== History of Patents in the United States ==
 
During the period of America’s [[Thirteen Colonies]] a few inventors were able to obtain monopolies (i.e. “patents”) to produce and sell their inventions. These monopolies were granted by petition to a given colony’s legislature.
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The first 10,000 patents issued by the [[USPTO]] from July [[1790]] to July [[1836]] were destroyed in a fire in December 1836. About 2800 of them were later recovered, but the majority of them are still missing. The recovered patents are now called [[X-Patent]]s because their patent numbers end with an "X."
 
=== Patent models ===
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* [[Patent Commons]], which is an attempt to protect FL/OSS software from attack by patent holders. Several companies have donated patents to several different Patent Commons for defensive use.
 
== See also ==
 
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