Patent protection allows inventors to ascribe value to their hard work, and gives them an opportunity to derive an income from it.
Patents protected inventors and let them profit from their inventions.
Patents protected inventors and let them profit from their inventions.
Patents protected inventors and let them profit from their inventions.
Thomas Edison
That is impossible to tell. In which country? At which time? Look at the number of patents in the USA and guess that have the number shows the number of inventors.
There are many such inventors. Using Google Patent search listed 5,750 patents whose inventor(s) included this name.
Both potential inventors and the government were otherwise occupied with the Civil War.
Norbert Meckem and Heinrich Krauter are labelled as the inventors on the US patents website.
The patent office of each country examines patent applications for new products and processes to ensure their novelty, and issues patents, which give the inventors a temporary monopoly on their inventions.
Industrialists usually support inventors in exchange for patent rights. For example, Morgan backed Tesla and used his patents.
The government protects inventors and authors to promote innovation. It encourages creative people to invest time and effort in their ideas with the knowledge that they will not be cheated out of their rewards if it is successful.
Thomas Edison was one of America's most prolific inventors holding over one thousand patents. == ==