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>Patents were only introduced in the Swiss law in 1907. Luckily for us all otherwise we might never had a certain patent clerk figuring out relativity. Edit:
by dogma1138 8y ago
>Patents were only introduced in the Swiss law in 1907.
Luckily for us all otherwise we might never had a certain patent clerk figuring out relativity.
Edit: Also the Swiss Patent Office was founded in 1888 which is more inline with what I remember as Einstein worked there since 1902.
Do you know under which mandate did it operate then?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Institute_of_Intellectual_Property https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Federal_Institute_of_I...
- amelius 8y ago> Luckily for us all otherwise we might never had a certain patent clerk figuring out relativity. Also glad he didn't patent it.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoOnly designs for machines and methods embodied in machines were generally patentable in the past. Mathematical formulae are not patentable.
- yorwba 8y agoThe then Federal Industrial Property Agency officially came into existence on 15 November 1888. This was as a result of the Patents Act of 29 June 1888 and the Industrial Designs and Models Act of 21 December 1888. These two new laws required a new federal office to assume the associated tasks. https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/the-history-of-the-ipi.html https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/the-history-of-the-ipi.html Maybe what changed in 1907 was that French patents were protected as well?
- littlestymaar 8y agoOr the chemical process. But you're right, that was probably a simplification from the museum.
- mrleiter 8y agohttps://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1419&context=iplj https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=14... Germany and the United States put (tarriffs) pressure on Switzerland and the turn of the century, forcing them to protect their patents in Switzerland. They unhappily obliged after years of talks and trade issues - in 1907. PS: specifically chemical patents