U radu se prikazuju patentni propisi na području Republike Hrvatske od sredine 19. stoljeća do kraja Drugog svjetskog rata. Prikazuje se kronologija zaštite izuma u Habsburškoj Monarhiji, povezanost ustavnih promjena iz 1851. i 1867. godine s izmjenama patentnih propisa, kao i izmjene Carinskog i trgovačkog ugovora koje su tijekom 90-ih godina 19. stoljeća dovele do potpunog odvajanja austrijskih i ugarskih patenata. Posebno se obrađuje uloga austro-ugarske diplomacije u nastanku te naknadnim revizijama Pariške konvencije za zaštitu industrijskog vlasništva iz 1883. godine. Donosi se pregled svih uredbi, naredbi i zakona u području patentne zaštite u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji čiji je glavni autor bio dr. Janko Šuman. Zadnje poglavlje donosi kratak osvrt na Hrvatski državni patentni ured koji je osnovan za vrijeme NDH, dosad posve zanemaren u historiografskim istraživanjima.The paper presents patent regulations in the territory of the Republic of Croatia from the middle of
the 19th century to the end of the Second World War. The chronology of the protection of inventions
in the Habsburg Monarchy is shown, as well as the connection between the constitutional changes
of 1851 and 1867 with the changes in patent regulations, and also the changes in the Customs and
Trade Agreement that led to the complete separation of Austrian and Hungarian patents during the
1890s. The role of Austro-Hungarian diplomacy in the creation and subsequent revisions of the Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property from 1883 is especially discussed. An overview
of all decrees, orders and laws in the field of patent protection in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia is
given. The main author of these was dr. Janko Šuman. The last chapter provides a brief review of the
Croatian State Patent Office, which was established during the NDH, so far completely neglected in
historiographical research
