Patently contestable : electrical technologies and inventor identities on trial in Britain

• Tác giả: Stathis Arapostathis, Graeme Gooday
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0262313414
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 346.410486 Private law
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 PDF (xv, 294 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313646
• Chủ đề: 1. Electric apparatus and appliances--History--Great Britain; 2. Electric apparatus and appliances--Patents--Great Britain; 3. Inventors--Legal status, laws, etc--Great Britain; 4. Patent laws and legislation--History--Great Britain; 5. Patent suits--History--19th century--Great Britain; 6. Patent suits--History--20th century--Great Britain

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

 Late nineteenth-century Britain saw an extraordinary surge in patent disputes over the new technologies of electrical power, lighting, telephony, and radio. These battles played out in the twin tribunals of the courtroom and the press. In Patently Contestable, Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday examine how Britain's patent laws and associated cultures changed from the 1870s to the 1920s. They consider how patent rights came to be so widely disputed and how the identification of apparently solo heroic inventors was the contingent outcome of patent litigation. Furthermore, they point out potential parallels between the British experience of allegedly patentee-friendly legislation introduced in 1883 and a similar potentially empowering shift in American patent policy in 2011. After explaining the trajectory of an invention from laboratory to Patent Office to the court and the key role of patent agents, Arapostathis and Gooday offer four case studies of patent-centered disputes in Britain. These include the mostly unsuccessful claims against the UK alliance of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison in telephony
  publicly disputed patents for technologies for the generation and distribution of electric power
  challenges to Marconi's patenting of wireless telegraphy as an appropriation of public knowledge
  and the emergence of patent pools to control the market in incandescent light bulbs.