Alain Pottage, Brad Sherman

Figures of Invention

A History of Modern Patent Law a History of Modern Patent Law

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Produktbeschreibung

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 and makes explicit a dimension of patent law that is not commonly found in traditional texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199595631
• ISBN-10: 0199595631
• Artikelnr.: 32727870

Autorenporträt

Alain Pottage is Reader in Law at the London School of Economics. He holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics. Before joining the Law Department of the LSE, he was a researcher at the Law Commission and a lecturer in the School of Law at King's College London. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the University of Sydney, and Cornell Law School. Brad Sherman is Professor of Law at Griffith University, Brisbane , and Director, Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Industrial copies
3: Recollection and possession
4: The principle of a machine
5: Mechanical jurisprudence
6: Reissues
7: Textual machines
8: Organisms as manufactures
9: Bio-legal hybrids