Figures of Invention: A History of Modern Patent Law a History of Modern Patent Law

by Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman

Book Overview

Taking the invention as its object of study, Figures of Invention develops a radical new perspective on the making of modern patent law. It develops the first extended historical and conceptual exploration of the invention in modern patent law. Focusing primarily on the figures that make inventions material, and on how to overcome the intangibility of ideas, this intellectual challenging book makes explicit a dimension of patent law that is not commonly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199595631
• ISBN13: 9780199595631
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"