Patent Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective
Redaktion: Gooday, Graeme

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet throughout the modern period, countries fashioned their own mechanisms for fostering technological invention. Notwithstanding the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the comparative historical development of patent practices. Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective seeks to fill this gap. Tracing national patenting from imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century to our time, this work asks fundamental questions about the limits of globalization, innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context shapes patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contested role of patents in the modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108661577
• Artikelnr.: 60862587

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introductory: 1. Diversity versus harmonization in patent history:
an overview Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf; 2. The 1883 Paris Convention and
the impossible unification of industrial property Gabriel Galvez-Behar; 3.
One for all? The American patent system and harmonization of international
intellectual property laws Zorina Khan; Part II. Americas: Technical
Imaginaries: 4. US patent models as specimen and specification Courtney
Fullilove; 5. Mexico and the puzzle of partial harmonization:
nineteenth-century patent Law reconsidered Edward Beatty; 6. An early
patent system in Latin America: the Chilean case, 1840s-1900s Bernardita
Escobar Andrae; Part III. Southern Europe: 7. The Italian patent system
during the long nineteenth century: from privileges to property rights in a
latecomer industrializing country Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo
Vasta; 8. Industrial 'property', law, and the politics of invention in
Greece, 1900-1940 Stathis Arapostathis; 9. Mediation and harmonization:
construction of the Spanish patent system in the twentieth century Ana
Romero de Pablos; Part IV. Central and Eastern Europe: 10. The struggle
over 'the social function of intellectual work in the economy of nations':
engineers, patent law, and enterprise inventions in Germany and their
European significance Karl Hall; 11. Multiple loyalties: hybrid patent
regimes in the Habsburg empire and its successor states Karl Hall; 12.
Patent debates on invention from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union Karl
Hall; Part V. Asia: 13. Patent policy in India under the British Raj: a
bittersweet story of empire and innovation Rajesh Sagar; 14. The India
twist to patent culture: investigating its history Tania Sebastian; 15. The
life and times of patent no. 2,670: industrial property and public
knowledge in early twentieth-century Japan Kjell Ericson; Part VI.
Epilogue: 16. Postscript Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf.