Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture

by Peter H. Christensen

A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.

Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects' engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits afforded by exclusive intellectual property...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262048957
• ISBN13: 9780262048958
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"