Parliament, inventions and patents : a research guide and bibliography / Phillip Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Phillip (Phillip Michael), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patent laws and legislation--Great Britain--Bibliography.

Patent laws and legislation.

Patent laws and legislation--Great Britain--Legal research.

Patent laws and legislation--Great Britain--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (871 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976. It chronicles the entire history of a purely British patent law before the coming into force of the European Patent Convention under the Patents Act 1977. It provides a comprehensive record of every Act, Bill, Parliamentary paper, report, petition and recorded debate or Parliamentary question on patent law during the period. The work will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers in intellectual property law, the history of technology, and legal and economic history.

Contents:

Introduction

Public acts and bills

Private acts and bills

Legislation of the old Scottish and Irish parliament

Statutory instruments

Parliamentary rewards

Parliamentary and command papers

Petitions

Parliamentary questions and debates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-33264-3

0-203-70215-8

1-351-33263-5

9780203702154

OCLC:

1019649342