Wales, some sections of the statute are still technically in force, although the Statute Law Revision Act 1863, Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act 1883, Statute Law Revision Act 1948, Administration of Justice Act 1965 and Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 repealed most of the legislation. In practice however, with the Patents Act 1977 (which brought the United Kingdom into line with the European Patent Convention), the statute has been implicitly repealed within England and Wales. See also Statute of Anne Intellectual property Patent References Bibliography External links Statute of Monopolies (original text, modern spelling). 1624 in law Acts of the Parliament of England Monopoly (economics) United Kingdom patent law 1624 in England History of patent law History of competition law Patent legislation