| Articles by Monika Kanwar |
Intellectual Property - Its Meaning And Development In India - by Monika Kanwar The term "intellectual property" was introduced in the case of Davoll et al. v. Brown in October 1845 in the Massachusetts Circuit Court. In this Justice Charles L. Woodbury held that "only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests as much a man's own...as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears.” Section 1 of the French law of 1791 also stated that "All new discoveries are the property of the author; to assure the inventor the property and temporary enjoyment of his discovery, there shall be delivered to him a patent for five, ten or fifteen years.
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