The first patent was granted by the city of Florence to Filippo Brunelleschi for his invention of an iron-clad vessel, designed to carry marble. It was unsuccessful, but he managed to gain exclusive commercial rights to its use.
Please log in to
consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing
institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on
campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we
offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If
you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal
subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.
38 words
Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Italy introduces patents". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=9652, accessed 23 November 2024.]