The Role of Theoretical Debate in the Evolution of National and International Patent Protection


Book Description

This volume offers a detailed account of the development of national patent systems, and then moving on to the international sphere to discuss the factors which provided the impetus for the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883).







Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain


Book Description

This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).