Intellectual property term
February 15th, 2007, Tomasz RychlickiIf you were ever wondering about the origin of this misleading term of intellectual property you probably did some Internet search. Well-known www.wikipedia.org gives you a little help in this matter. You may read that this term was first used in 1845 roku by Judge Charles L. Woodbury’s in the judgement Davoll v. Brown, 1 Woodb. & M. 53, 3 West.L.J. 151, 7 F.Cas. 197, No. 3662, 2 Robb.Pat.Cas. 303, Merw.Pat.Inv. 414, (PDF file).
Only thus can ingenuity and perseverance be encouraged to exert themselves in this way usefully to the community; and only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests as much a man’s own, and as much the fruit of his honest industry, as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears.
For all of you who are interested I post a link to the whole case. It concerned patent law issues. I edited also this Wiki post. If some of you have a copy of A. Nion’s book titled “Droit civils des auteurs, artistes et inventeurs” I would appreciate if you contact me about publishing it here.