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This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution.

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List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Notes on style; Introduction; 1. Patents 1550–1660: law, policy and controversy; 2. The later-Stuart patent grant - an instrument of policy?; 3. The development of the patent system, 1660–1800; 4. The judiciary and the enforcement of patent rights; 5. The decision to patent; 6. Invention outside the patent system; 7. Patents in a capitalist economy; 8. The long-term rise in patents; 9. The goals of invention; 10. Patents: criticisms and alternatives; 11. A new concept of invention; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Inventing the Industrial Revolution

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 5 September 2002
      ISBN-13 9780521893992
      978-0521893992
      ISBN-10 0521893992
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      Inventions and inventors

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution.

      Table of Contents
      List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Notes on style; Introduction; 1. Patents 1550–1660: law, policy and controversy; 2. The later-Stuart patent grant - an instrument of policy?; 3. The development of the patent system, 1660–1800; 4. The judiciary and the enforcement of patent rights; 5. The decision to patent; 6. Invention outside the patent system; 7. Patents in a capitalist economy; 8. The long-term rise in patents; 9. The goals of invention; 10. Patents: criticisms and alternatives; 11. A new concept of invention; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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