GENERAL
4th Century B.C.:
Politics (Aristotle)
'...system of rewards for those who discover things useful to the state.'
1200s - 1600s A.D.:
IPRs granted by European Monarchs (monopoly grants, primarily literary works and guilds).
1624
Statute of Monopolies (Britain)...monopoly grants limited to 'inventors'.
PLANTS
Middle Ages:
Geographic Indicators in South-West France for 'Bordeaux Wine Trade'
(the privilège de la descente and the privilège de la barrique.
