Posts Tagged: "World War I"

June 28, 2014, marked the one-hundred year anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the precipitating event which catapulted the globe into World War I. Across the world, events to commemorate the First World War Centenary will take place between now and 2018, the centennial anniversary of the war’s end . . . As with other milestone occasions, we have decided to commemorate innovations and inventors from the World War I era, looking at a range of patents issued in that period. This review was interesting because it shows the difference in the scope of intellectual property then as opposed to now.