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  • 6 - An Early Patent System in Latin America

  • from Part II - Americas
  • Edited by Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds, Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut
  • Book:
    Patent Cultures
    Published online:
    23 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 126-144

  • Summary

    This chapter studies the effects produced by salient features of the first Chilean patent law of 1840 on the establishment of different innovative business cultures. In particular it looks at the effects of the dual protection strategy of the Chilean patent law in protecting equivalently both “inventions” (subject matter was delimited by absolute novelty, without geographic constraints) and “introductions” (subject matter was delimited by its geographic novelty of use in Chile) in the period up to the 1870s. The chapter tests for a structural change in the granting of innovative patents after the protection for introduction patents was repealed in 1872, and characterizes the Chilean culture of dispute within innovative businesses in the period of 1877–1910, by examining the characteristics of the oppositions raised against patent applications.