Talk:History of patent law

message: Much of the History of Patents section of the Patent article duplicates what's here (some of does so verbatim). I suggest removing the material from the Patent article and merging it here.Bryan 21:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with your proposal. --Edcolins 21:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplication of content

message: I have provided a portion of one of my term papers dealing with Patentability of method of performing mental act, if anyone has time to spare I believe this can be reformatted and summarized to contribute substantially to the expansion of this article. This is essentially a filtered and corrected version of an article that may still available at http://www.altlawforum.org/ (I am not sure, the site seems to be down and the term paper in question is at least one year old. In any case the original article does not have sufficient originality to be copyrighted as it is only a collection of historical facts and neither does the relevant portion of my paper though the entire paper would be copyrightable.)
=== I'm blanking the probably copyrighted material ===
I don't think that we're in a good place to judge the sufficiency of the originality of the source article.  A collection of facts may not be copyrightable but the prose articulating the facts would be.  mmmbeerT / C / ? 18:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion of article  --[[User:Ankon Ray|Ankon Ray]] 15:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC) 

message: I don't think that we're in a good place to judge the sufficiency of the originality of the source article.  A collection of facts may not be copyrightable but the prose articulating the facts would be.  mmmbeerT / C / ? 18:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm blanking the probably copyrighted material 

message: This article talks about the Venetian Statute of 1474, then jumps back in time to "ancient Greek cities". Understandably, there was a Dark Age period for Europe approximately 500 AD to 1500 AD, but it doesn't mean that progress and innovation stopped worldwide for that duration. For example, the Muslim civilization during the Middle Ages was more advanced than the preceeding ancient Greece. Someone please add information relevant to patent law from other parts of the world to fill in the missing time gap. Whenever an article or a book claims to give a broad coverage on some topic and then talks about ancient Greece, just before jumping to Renaissance Europe (or vice versa) is Eurocentric POV. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.103.17.98 (talk) 21:29, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just curious, but isn't it just as Islam-centric to assume that "Muslim civilization during the Middle Ages was more advanced than the preceeding ancient Greece"...? Yeah, thought so as well. Regards Gun Powder Ma 00:27, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

text: [From Terry0051] If there's evidence relevant to patent-relevant laws from Muslim sources from 600 AD to 1500 AD, then let's hear about it.  But to assume (or even demand) that there be such a history, if (so far) there is no sign of any such facts, shows a POV of its own. It's not POV, Eurocentric or otherwise, to report sourced facts, straightfowardly. [P.S. Sorry, this is ancient stuff, I'm on the wrong page and thought this subject had suddenly appeared, didn't notice I was commenting on an old post.] Terry0051 (talk) 21:50, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eurocentric POV 

message: Third paragraph in section 1.4 seems to be missing all citations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.175.98.103 (talk) 02:43, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible missing citation 

message: A reader contacted Wikimedia with some suggestions for improvement of this article, and gave me permission to copy the contents of the email here, which I will copy below my sig --S Philbrick(Talk) 17:28, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for improvement 

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