The Berne Convention & the Birth of International Copyright

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, signed in 1886 in Berne, Switzerland,...

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Its Origins

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) was signed in Washington, D.C., on 19 June 1970 and entered into force on...

Industrial design protection in Nepal traces back to the Patent, Design and Trade Mark Act, 2022 BS (1965 AD)

Explore the industrial design history timeline in Nepal, covering key legal moments under the PDTA 1965 and ho...

The first patent in history was awarded in 1421 in Florence to architect Filippo Brunelleschi for a cargo ship...

Intellectual property rights in Nepal moved from unwritten artisan guild customs to a codified statute with th...

The ® and ™ symbols carry a legal history stretching from 19th-century British common law to modern statutes l...

The oldest registered trademarks in history trace back to ancient merchant marks, but formal registration bega...

The history of trademarks stretches back more than three millennia