Greece grants

It is said that Alexander the Great introduced Indian cotton into Egypt in the fourth century BC, and from there it spread to Greece, Italy, and Spain. During the year AD 700, China began growing cotton as a decorative plant, and AD 798 saw its introduction into Japan. Early explorers in Pern found cotton cloth on exhumed mummies that dated to 200 BC. Cotton was found in North America by Columbus in 1492. About 300 years later, the first cotton mill was built in Beverly, Massachusetts, and in 1794 EH Whitney was granted a patent for the invention of the cotton gin. 

The regulations allowed Spain and Greece to delay accepting the SPC system for 5 years. In addition, transitional provisions were adopted that allowed each country to choose to allow SPCs for products whose first MA was granted after January 1, 1982, June 1, 1985, or January 1, 1988. 

The work is supported by Greece-Ukrainian Grant Nanostructured layers from oxides, intermetalides and polymers on semiconductors for chemical sensors , Jfo2M l 92-2001. 

Patents are not a new concept. They were granted at least as far back as ancient Greece and Babylon. Neither are they the product of only one form of government. Essentially, every country has some form of patent protection, albeit not necessarily as strong as that in the USA and the other industrialized countries. Patent laws can exist even in non-capitalist systems, such as the former USSR. That intellectual property is a highly valued concept can be no better demonstrated than by the observation that there are only two rights (patents and copyrights) that are specifically mentioned in the US Constitution. Sect. 8, para. 8 reads ... 

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