Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800Cambridge University Press, 9 de maig 2002 - 316 pàgines This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines contemporary criticism of the patent system in the light of the changing conceptualisation of invention among natural scientists and political economists. |
Continguts
Patents 15501660 law policy and controversy | 10 |
The laterStuart patent grant an instrument of policy? | 20 |
The development of the patent system 16001800 | 40 |
The judiciary and the enforcement of patent rights | 58 |
The decision to patent | 75 |
Invention outside the patent system | 97 |
Patents in a capitalist economy | 115 |
The longterm rise in patents | 144 |
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Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800 Christine MacLeod Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800 Christine MacLeod Previsualització no disponible - 1988 |
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