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Intangible intangibles : patent law's engagement with dematerialised subject matter / Brad Sherman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherman, Brad, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge intellectual property and information law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patent laws and legislation--United States.
- Patent laws and legislation.
- Intangible property--United States.
- Intangible property.
- Intellectual property--United States.
- Intellectual property.
- Science and law--United States.
- Science and law.
- Technology and law--United States.
- Technology and law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "This book takes as its starting point recent debates over the dematerialisation of subject matter which have arisen because of changes in information technology, molecular biology, and related fields that produced a subject matter with no obvious material form or trace. Arguing against the idea that dematerialisation is a uniquely twenty-first century problem, this book looks at three situations where US patent law has already dealt with a dematerialised subject matter: nineteenth century chemical inventions, computer-related inventions in the 1970s, and biological subject matter across the twentieth century. In looking at what we can learn from these historical accounts about how the law responded to a dematerialised subject matter and the role that science and technology played in that process, this book provides a history of patentable subject matter in the United States"-- Provided by the publisher
- Contents:
- An impure law
- Informed material
- Speculative property
- Intangible machines
- A hybrid subject matter
- Fabian patents
- Bio-legal subject matter
- Molecular subject matter
- Postgenomic subject matter
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781009479646
- 1009479644
- 9781009479653
- 1009479652
- 9781009479639
- 1009479636
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access. Unrestricted online access
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