...21st year of his reign. A proviso in this Statute reserved to the Crown the right of granting letters patent and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under, for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm, to the true and...

...exempting from the operation of the 1st section of that statute 'letters patents and grants of privilege of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures." If the patent imports anything beyond' the granting of the sole working and making, it grants something...

...during the reign of James I., which declared all monopolies to be null and void ' except as to letters patent and grants of privilege, for the term of fourteen years or under, for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures, within the realm to the true and...

...of " inventions," or, to use the words of the old Statute of Monopolies, they are limited in favour of the " sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures to the true and first inventor. . . ." An idea, however brilliant, a principle, however pregnant, is...

...common law. It exempted from its operation, however: * * * letters-patent and grants of privilege * * * of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures, * * * to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others, at the time...

...Monopolies, and take the words of the section, we find that the prohibition is not to extend to the ' making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants...

...before-mentioned shall not extend to any Letters Patents and Grants of Privilege for the Term of fourteen Yeares or under, hereafter to be made, of the sole Working...of any manner of new Manufactures within this Realm ..." The most significant aspect of the statute from the standpoint of copyright is that it did not...

...any letters patent and grants of privilege for the term of one and twenty years or under heretofore made, of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufacture within this realm, to the first and true inventor or inventors of such manufactures which...

...and be it declared and enacted that any declaration before mentioned shall not extend to any letters patent and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen...within this realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants...

...Monopolies contained a general prohibition on monopolies, but it also had an exception for "any letters patent and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen...within this realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures) .|" An Act concerning Monopolies and Dispensations with Penal Laws,...