The paradoxes of patenting : invention and its diffusion in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, France, and North America

Author

MacLeod, Christine

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Technology and culture. 1991, Num. 4, Vol. 32, 885-910

ISSN

0040-165X

Abstract (en)

Studies the part that patents played in the commercial exploitation of an invention, and the effect of differing configurations of patent laws and administrative practices on the rate and extent of diffusion.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800
• Patents
• 1700-1900
• Inventions
• Diffusion
• Great Britain
• France
• North America
• Commerce

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800
• Brevet
• 1700-1900
• Invention
• Diffusion
• Grande-Bretagne
• France
• Amérique du Nord
• Commerce

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19921001-00433428

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