Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figure
- 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
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figure
- 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
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Inventing the Industrial RevolutionThe English Patent System, 1660–1800, pp. xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988