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Patents and climate change : there's no place like home / by Michael J. Dochniak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dochniak, Michael J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Green technology--Great Britain.
- Green technology.
- Patent laws and legislation--Great Britain.
- Patent laws and legislation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- After 4.5 billion years of change, is the planet Earth a complex and delicate ecosystem? It is well-known that some human activities may be part of a climate-change process that affects global warming. Environmental scientists continue to make substantial progress in advancing our understanding of how such activities affect climate change. Since the year 1989, hundreds of global-warming related patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This original and important book thus provides an easy-to-read summary of such patents. Within many of the summaries, there are inventor profiles and news articles that are insightful and thought-provoking. Pioneering inventors hail from many locations including Brazil, Great Britain, India, Japan, Mexico, and Taiwan. At the beginning of several chapters, contradictory opinions on climate change are provided in the form of quotes. Chapter Seven offers an example of a fascinating application that failed to gain US patent protection. In the final chapter, several significant climate-change issues that continue to be addressed are outlined.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Glossary I
- Glossary II
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-0069-1
- OCLC:
- 1005614898
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