The British patent system during the industrial revolution, 1700-1852 : from privilege to property

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The British patent system during the industrial revolution, 1700-1852 : from privilege to property

Title remainder

from privilege to property

Statement of responsibility

Sean Bottomley

Creator

• Bottomley, Sean

Subject

• Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History
• Industrialization -- Great Britain -- History
• Patent laws and legislation -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700–1852 presents a fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It shows that despite the absence of legislative reform, the British patent system was continually evolving and responding to the needs of an industrialising economy. Inventors were able to obtain and enforce patent rights with relative ease. This placed Britain in an exceptional position. Until other countries began to enact patent laws in the 1790s, it was the only country where inventors were frequently able to appropriate returns from obtaining intellectual property rights, thus encouraging them to develop the new technology industrialisation required.--

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• Cambridge intellectual property and information law, 28

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge intellectual property and information law
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

28