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"In the United Kingdom, the great patent treatise of the twentieth century was Terrell on the Law of Patents." in Phillip Johnson, "A step back in time: nineteenth century US patent law revisited", Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 1, Number 12, pp. 809-810.
