Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2012

It is believed that the outstanding performance of the US industry is due to the efficiency of this country's patent system.

Up to the end of the nineteenth century, not all patents requested would be granted; they had to be approved by the Crown.

The new class of administrators that emerged from the patent fees system would not agree with the high costs of the patent procedure.

Before regulation, British monarchs would use the patent system unfairly, thus favoring some people over others, which led to the increase in the prices of goods.

The British patent system is the oldest one in the world, but it only took the form that we are familiar with today, i.e. protection for inventors, after the seventeenth century.