Patent Cultures : Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective Hardback
Edited by Graeme (University of Leeds) Gooday, Steven (University of Connecticut) Wilf
Part of the Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law series
Hardback
Description
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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:390 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and whi
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781108475761
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:390 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and whi
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108475761
