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History of patent
In 500 BC, in the Greek city of Sybaris (located in what is now southern Italy), "encouragement
was held out to all who should discover any new refinement in luxury, the profits arising from which
were secured to the inventor by patent for the space of a year".
The Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi received a three-year patent for a barge with hoisting
gear, that carried marble along the Arno River in 1421.
In 1449 King Henry VI granted the first patent
with a license of 20 years to John of Utynam for introducing the making of colored glass to England.
Patents in the modern sense originated in 1474, when the Republic of Venice enacted a decree that
new and inventive devices, once put into practice, had to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the
right to prevent others from using them.
Year 2010 has become our celebrations to celebrate the advancement in the fields of beauty,
entertainment, cooking and many other electronics. Life will be great and easy after that.
Grammar tip
Check
Notice that when you are talking about a period of time from the past up
to the present, you use the Present Perfect.
Have you done your project yet?
When you are talking about a finished action at a definite time in the past,
you use the Past Simple.
When did you do your project?
For more on this, turn to ‘Grammar Reference’.
2. Read & translate the text ‘History of patent’. Make a presentation of
any invention of that time with your commentaries in Present Perfect.
3. A film studio is going to make a film about the latest inventions.
You are invited to the studio as an expert to decide what invention should be included in
the film. You are supposed to speak about one invention only.

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