Jurisdictions
England
Hulme's list of 55 grants for 1561–1603, Woodcroft's 14,359 numbers for 1617–1852 and 10,453 Stationers' Register entries for 1557–1640. 1604–1616 falls between the two lists.
Invention grants per year, England14,375Grants 1561–1852New invention privileges and patents granted in the year: Hulme's list for 1561–1603; for …Before and after the Statute of Monopolies (1624)3.9 → 3.6Grants per year, before → afterMean grants per year in the seven years before and after 1624, the year of the Statute of …Field compositionTextiles, dyeing and leatherLargest field 1840–1852Share of granted inventions by field. The field is the first match of a pre-registered lis…Foreign links21.6%England 1840–1852England 1617–1852: share of grants whose text says 'communication' (an invention communica…Terms granted21 → 14England median, before → after 1624Term in years written in the grant. Terms not written are left blank, not filled in.…From 21 years to 14324 / 32914 years or less, 1625–1700Grants per year 1617–1700 whose first written term is 21 years, and whose first written te…Rent and proviso clauses69% → 4%Rent clause, 1617–49 → 1660–99Share of Woodcroft entries 1617–1759 whose summary mentions a rent to the Crown or a provi…Stationers' Register entries per year10,453Entries 1557–1640Copy entries (permissions to publish) made in the register of the Stationers' Company each…Shared, reassigned and cancelled entries10.4%Reassigned, 1620sShare of entries per decade that SRO marks 'shared' (entered by more than one person), 're…
Venice
Invention patents are shown only as figures from the literature (secondary). The record-level source checked here is Berveglieri's 2020 calendar (2,130 grants), not yet transcribed; earlier, Mandich (1936, 1948) transcribed and classified 109 grants of 1474–1550 (Comino et al. 2017). Printing privileges: Fulin's 256 documents of 1882, coded here.
Jurisdictions compared by period471 · 55Venice · England 1551–1600Privileges per half-century for England (our count), the Dutch Republic (our recount of th…Venice 1474–1550 by sector (secondary)85 / 169MillsThe 169 patents of Table A1 in Comino et al. (sectors of Berveglieri 1995), mapped to this…Terms granted21 → 14England median, before → after 1624Term in years written in the grant. Terms not written are left blank, not filled in.…Venetian printing privileges240Printing privileges 1492–1526Documents in Fulin's collection (1469–1526) that grant a printing privilege (an exclusive …
Dutch Republic
The Buning and Looijesteijn data (1581–1621, CC BY 4.0), recounted here; only documents that issue a privilege are counted.
Jurisdictions compared by period471 · 55Venice · England 1551–1600Privileges per half-century for England (our count), the Dutch Republic (our recount of th…Foreign links21.6%England 1840–1852England 1617–1852: share of grants whose text says 'communication' (an invention communica…Terms granted21 → 14England median, before → after 1624Term in years written in the grant. Terms not written are left blank, not filled in.…