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The British patent system and the industrial revolution, 1700-1852 : from privilege to property /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Cambridge intellectual property and information law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316129128 1316129128 9781107415508 1107415500 9781316131305 1316131300 |