| #2076276 in Books | 2013-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,1.22 | File type: PDF | 310 pages|||| Patently Contestable is a dazzling display of the power of history to speak to the most pressing concerns of our modern technological age. This book challenges the fundamental assumptions that allow corporations to monopolize socially and collectively
Late nineteenth-century Britain saw an extraordinary surge in patent disputes over the new technologies of electrical power, lighting, telephony, and radio. These battles played out in the twin tribunals of the courtroom and the press. In Patently Contestable, Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday examine how Britain's patent laws and associated cultures changed from the 1870s to the 1920s. They consider how patent rights came to be so widely disputed and how...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain (Inside Technology) | Stathis Arapostathis, Graeme Gooday. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
