Patent Cultures
Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective
Steven Wilf editor Graeme Gooday editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:7th Jul '22
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Tracing global histories of patenting, this book reveals the resilient diversity of patent systems, challenging the universality of 'intellectual property'.
Featuring contributors from a dozen countries, this comprehensive volume examines patenting through an interdisciplinary and global perspective. It reveals the persistent diversity of patent systems despite ongoing globalization projects and will appeal to historians of science and technology, policy experts, intellectual property lawyers, and economists alike.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.
ISBN: 9781108468886
Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 560g
380 pages