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Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective

Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective

Author: Graeme Gooday; Steven Wilf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108468886

Published In: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781108475761

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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 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.

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