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The British patent system during the industrial revolution, 1700-1852 : from privilege to property / Sean Bottomley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bottomley, Sean, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 28.
- Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patent laws and legislation--Great Britain--History.
- Patent laws and legislation.
- Industrial revolution--Great Britain--History.
- Industrial revolution.
- Industrialization--Great Britain--History.
- Industrialization.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700-1852 presents a fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It shows that despite the absence of legislative reform, the British patent system was continually evolving and responding to the needs of an industrialising economy. Inventors were able to obtain and enforce patent rights with relative ease. This placed Britain in an exceptional position. Until other countries began to enact patent laws in the 1790s, it was the only country where inventors were frequently able to appropriate returns from obtaining intellectual property rights, thus encouraging them to develop the new technology industrialisation required.
- Contents:
- Part I. The patent system
- The administration of patents : a poor man's tale?
- The jurisprudence of patents : the specification requirement
- Of patents and pirates : the adjudication of patent disputes
- The substantive development of patent law
- Part II. Patents and technology
- Patents and the Industrial Enlightenment
- The market in patent right
- Patents and the Newcomen and Watt steam engines
- Capital, patents and the joint-stock company.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781107415508
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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