Author : H. I. Dutton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780719009976
Author : Christine MacLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521893992
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.
Author : Stephen H. Haber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019757615X
This essay is the introduction to a book of the same title, forthcoming in summer of 2021 from Oxford University Press. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in any way they can, and consequently, they are riven with imperfections. The interesting historical question is why US-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays in the book suggest that the creation of a tradable but temporary property right facilitates the transfer of technological knowledge and thus fosters a highly productive decentralized ecology of inventors and firms.
Author : National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400879760
The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Josh Lerner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226473031
This volume offers contributions to questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological change. Central to the development of new technologies are institutional environments and among the topics discussed are the roles played by universities and the ways in which the allocation of funds affects innovation.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category :
ISBN : 9264056440
This manual provides guiding principles for the use of patent data in the context of S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation of patent indicators in this context.
Author : Fritz Machlup
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Patents
ISBN :
At head of title: 85th Cong., 2d sess. Committee print. Bibliography: p. 81-86.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309089107
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.
Author : C. T. Taylor
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1973-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521202558
Author : B. Zorina Khan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521811354
This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'.
