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Patent cultures : diversity and harmonization in historical perspective / edited by Graeme Gooday, Steven Wilf.

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"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 Organi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Gooday, Graeme (Editor), Wilf, Steven Robert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge intellectual property and information law.
Subjects:
Patent laws and legislation.
Intellectual property.
Table of Contents:
  • Diversity versus harmonization in patent history : an overview / Graeme Gooday and Steven Wilf
  • The 1983 Paris convention and the impossible unification of industrial property / Gabriel Galvez-Behar
  • One for all? the American patent system and harmonization of international intellectual property laws / B. Zorina Khan
  • Technical imaginaries : US patent models as specimen and specification / Courtney Fullilove
  • Mexico and the puzzle of partial harmonization : nineteenth-century patent law reconsidered / Edward Beatty
  • An early patent system in Latin America : the Chilean case, 1840s-1910s / Bernardita Escobar Andrae
  • The Italian patent system during the long nineteenth century : from privileges to property rights in a latecomer industrializing country / Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta
  • Industrial "property", law, and the politics of invention in Greece, 1900-1940 / Stathis Arapostathis
  • Mediation and harmonization : construction of the Spanish patent system in the twentieth century / Ana Romero de Pablos
  • 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
  • Multiple loyalties : hybrid patent regimes in the Habsburg empire and its successor states / Karl Hall
  • Patent debates on invention from tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union / Karl Hall
  • Patent policy in India under the British Raj : a bittersweet story of empire and innovation / Rajesh Sagar
  • The India twist to patent culture : investigating its history / Tania Sebastian
  • The life and times of patent no. 2,670 : industrial property and public knowledge in early twentieth-century Japan / Kjell Ericson
  • Postscript / Steven Wilf and Graeme Gooday.

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