0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history

Buy Now

Figures of Invention - A History of Modern Patent Law (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R4,288
Discovery Miles 42 880
You Save: R689 (14%)
Figures of Invention - A History of Modern Patent Law (Hardcover, New): Alain Pottage, Brad Sherman

Figures of Invention - A History of Modern Patent Law (Hardcover, New)

Alain Pottage, Brad Sherman

 (sign in to rate)
Was R4,977 Loot Price R4,288 Discovery Miles 42 880 | Repayment Terms: R402 pm x 12* You Save R689 (14%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Taking the invention as its object of study, this book develops a radical new perspective on the making of modern patent law. It develops an extended historical and conceptual exploration of the invention in modern patent law. Focussing primarily on the figures that make inventions material, and on how to overcome the intangibility of ideas, this intellectual challenging book makes explicit a dimension of patent law that is not commonly found in traditional commentaries, treatises and cases. The story is told from the perspective of the material media in which the intangible form of the invention is made visible; namely, models, texts, drawings, and biological specimens. This approach brings to light for the first time some essential formative moments in the history of patent law. For example, Figures of Invention describes the central role that scale models played in the making of nineteenth-century patent jurisprudence, the largely mythical character of the nineteenth-century theory that patents texts should function as a means of disclosing inventions, and the profound conceptual changes that emerged from debates as to how to represent and disclose the first biological inventions. At the same time, this historical inquiry also reveals the basic conceptual architecture of modern patent law. The story of how inventions were represented is also the story of the formation of the modern concept of invention, or of the historical processes that shaped the terms in which patent lawyers still apprehend the intangible form of the invention. Although the analysis focuses on the history of patent law in the United States, it develops themes that illuminate the evolution of patent regimes in Europe. In combining close historical analysis with broad thematic reflection, Figures of Invention makes a distinctive contribution both to the field of patent law scholarship and to emerging interdisciplinary debates about the constitution of patent law and of intellectual property in general.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2010
First published: December 2010
Authors: Alain Pottage • Brad Sherman
Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-959563-1
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Personal property law > Intellectual property, copyright & patents
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-959563-1
Barcode: 9780199595631

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The Land Is Ours - Black Lawyers And The…
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Paperback  (11)
R400 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690
Lawfare - Judging Politics In South…
Michelle Le Roux, Dennis Davis Paperback R300 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680
Advanced Introduction to Landmark…
George P. Fletcher Paperback R615 Discovery Miles 6 150
Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism…
James E. Crimmins, The Late Catherine Fuller Hardcover R5,076 Discovery Miles 50 760
Liber Amicorum - Tydskrif vir die…
E.C. Schlemmer, P. H. O'Brien Paperback R619 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760
Merlinus Liberatus: An Almanack for the…
John Partridge Paperback R464 Discovery Miles 4 640
Law in the First Person Plural - Roots…
Bert Van Roermund Hardcover R3,351 Discovery Miles 33 510
De Laudibus Legum Angliae
John Fortescue Paperback R580 Discovery Miles 5 800
Considerations on the Bills for the…
Thomas Gilbert Paperback R340 Discovery Miles 3 400
Ranelagh House - a Satire in Prose: in…
Joseph Warton Paperback R340 Discovery Miles 3 400
The Answer and Defence of Admiral…
Thomas Mathews Paperback R338 Discovery Miles 3 380
Every Man His Own Lawyer - Or, a Summary…
Giles Jacob Paperback R543 Discovery Miles 5 430

See more

Partners