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  • 3 - Informed Subject Matter

  • Brad Sherman, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Intangible Intangibles
    Published online:
    25 April 2024
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    09 May 2024, pp 44-76
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    This chapter looks at the way that patent law resolved some of the other problems that chemical subject matter posed, particularly in working out how to define the boundaries of what was being examined or protected. While patent law employed a number of different strategies to delimit a fickle, empirically based, and changing chemical subject matter, this chapter highlights the central role that the materiality of chemical compounds played in helping the law to accommodate chemical inventions.

  • 4 - Speculative Property

  • Brad Sherman, University of Queensland
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    Intangible Intangibles
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    25 April 2024
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    09 May 2024, pp 77-115
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    This chapter begins by outlining the changes that took place in second half of the nineteenth century with the rise of structural formula in chemistry and what this meant for patent law. Of particular importance was that it led to a shift away from the materiality of chemical compounds to more paper-based speculative inventions. The chapter ends by looking at what this dematerialisation of chemical subject matter meant and how the law responded.