Phillip Johnson is the Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University. His research interests include patent law, public law, and legal history. His publications include a leading practitioner text, the Modern Law of Patents (LexisNexis), and Parliament, Inventions and Patents: A Research Guide and Bibliography (Routledge).

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• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on sourcesTable of casesTables of legislation A history of patents Private Bill procedureThe beginnings The protection of inventions by enactment The non obstante clause and the right to work The restriction and regulation of company patents The specification and its concealment The prolongation of patents The grant of Parliamentary rewards: an alternative Restoration and renewal fees Re-dating and priority fights The end of private businessBibliography

Phillip Johnson is the Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University. His research interests include patent law, public law, and legal history. His publications include a leading practitioner text, the Modern Law of Patents (LexisNexis), and Parliament, Inventions and Patents: A Research Guide and Bibliography (Routledge).

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• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on sourcesTable of casesTables of legislation A history of patents Private Bill procedureThe beginnings The protection of inventions by enactment The non obstante clause and the right to work The restriction and regulation of company patents The specification and its concealment The prolongation of patents The grant of Parliamentary rewards: an alternative Restoration and renewal fees Re-dating and priority fights The end of private businessBibliography

Phillip Johnson is the Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University. His research interests include patent law, public law, and legal history. His publications include a leading practitioner text, the Modern Law of Patents (LexisNexis), and Parliament, Inventions and Patents: A Research Guide and Bibliography (Routledge).

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• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on sourcesTable of casesTables of legislation A history of patents Private Bill procedureThe beginnings The protection of inventions by enactment The non obstante clause and the right to work The restriction and regulation of company patents The specification and its concealment The prolongation of patents The grant of Parliamentary rewards: an alternative Restoration and renewal fees Re-dating and priority fights The end of private businessBibliography