Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain (Inside Technology)
By Unknown Author.
Description
An examination of the fierce disputes that arose in Britain in the decades around 1900 concerning patents for electrical power and telecommunications.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 w...
ISBN(s)
0262019035, 9780262019033
