Mainly on Patents
Mainly on Patents

Author: Felix Liebesny

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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History of patent systems; The british patent system; Foreign patents (except U.S.A.); The United States patent system; The exploitation of inventions, secret processes, and technological know-how; Patents as sources of information; British patent classification and subject searching; Trade marks; The protection of industrial designs; The future of the patent system.

The British Patent System During the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1852
The British Patent System During the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1852

Author: Sean Bottomley

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Published: 2014

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781316129128

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"The British Patent System and 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"--