History of Industrial Property and Inventions

The chapter is divided into six parts, the last five of them consisting in information grouped according to representative historic periods. In the first part, there is presented the history of the normative acts regarding the protection of the inventions in Romania starting with 1761–1766 and finishing with the year 2014. The first part also presents the history of the National Office for Industrial Property Protection and the methods of promoting this type of protection, even the format of printing a patent. The second part is dedicated to the period between 1800–1906, when the protection of the inventions was carried out with the help of Privileges and Special Laws. In 1906 the first Law of Inventions was adopted and the Invention Patents were issued until 1948 according to this law. The fourth part presents the history of inventions during the period 1948–1989, a period when the politics regime had an important influence on the domain of the industrial property protection, and the fifth part presents the history of inventions after 1989. The last part of the chapter presents examples of patents obtained by the Romanians before 1906, during the period 1906–1948 and during the period 1948–1989.