Privy Council’s Role in Cancelling Patents Around 1791
Patent – Patently-O 2017-08-21
Summary:
by Dennis Crouch In my view, a potential critical historical question in Oil States is whether the English Privy Council was empowered to revoke patents back in 1791. For many years leading up to its last cancellation action in 1779, the Privy Council operated as a kind of administrative body empowered to revoke or void issued patent […]