Cambridge University Press has
published a book on the history of different patent systems.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Graeme Gooday, University of
Leeds
Graeme Gooday is Professor of the
History of Science and Technology in the University of Leeds' School of
Philosophy, Religion and History of Science. From 2007–10 he led the AHRC-funded
project Owning and Disowning Invention, which produced the prize-winning
Patently Contestable (2013) with co-author Stathis Arapostathis. He was also
co-leader with Claire L. Jones of the international research network Rethinking
Patent Cultures (2014), the first workshop of which generated this volume.
Steven Wilf, University of
Connecticut
Steven Wilf is the Anthony J.
Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut Law School
where he founded the Intellectual Property program. He has served as Microsoft
Fellow at Princeton University and Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence
at the United States Copyright Office. He is the author of The Law before the
Law (2008), Law's Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in
Revolutionary America (Cambridge, 2010), and numerous articles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Introductory:
1. Diversity versus harmonization
in patent history: an overview Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf
2. The 1883 Paris Convention and
the impossible unification of industrial property Gabriel Galvez-Behar
3. One for all? The American
patent system and harmonization of international intellectual property laws Zorina
Khan
Part II. Americas: Technical
Imaginaries:
4. US patent models as specimen
and specification Courtney Fullilove
5. Mexico and the puzzle of
partial harmonization: nineteenth-century patent Law reconsidered Edward Beatty
6. An early patent system in
Latin America: the Chilean case, 1840s–1900s Bernardita Escobar Andrae
Part III. Southern Europe:
7. The Italian patent system
during the long nineteenth century: from privileges to property rights in a
latecomer industrializing country Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta
8. Industrial 'property', law,
and the politics of invention in Greece, 1900–1940 Stathis Arapostathis
9. Mediation and harmonization:
construction of the Spanish patent system in the twentieth century Ana Romero
de Pablos
Part IV. Central and Eastern
Europe:
10. The struggle over 'the social
function of intellectual work in the economy of nations': engineers, patent
law, and enterprise inventions in Germany and their European significance Karl
Hall
11. Multiple loyalties: hybrid
patent regimes in the Habsburg empire and its successor states Karl Hall
12. Patent debates on invention
from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union Karl Hall
Part V. Asia:
13. Patent policy in India under
the British Raj: a bittersweet story of empire and innovation Rajesh Sagar
14. The India twist to patent
culture: investigating its history Tania Sebastian
15. The life and times of patent
no. 2,670: industrial property and public knowledge in early twentieth-century
Japan Kjell Ericson
Part VI. Epilogue:
16. Postscript Graeme Gooday and
Steven Wilf.
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