Details

Subject(s)

• Intellectual property—Great Britain—History [Browse]

Related name

• Bently, Lionel, 1964- [Browse]

Series

Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights. [More in this series]

Summary note

This book is the first detailed historical account of why intellectual property law with its sub-categories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks took the shape that it did over the course of the nineteenth century. The authors also discuss ways in which the law grants property status to intangibles.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (221-236) and index.

Source of description

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Table of statutes and bills; Table of cases; Introduction; 1 Property in mental labour; 2 The mentality of intangible property; 3 Designing the law; 4 Managing the legal boundaries; Part 3 Towards an intellectual property law; 5 Crystallisation of the categories; 6 Completing the framework; 7 Explanations for the shape of intellectual property law; 8 Changes in the framework; 9 From creation to object; 10 Closure and its consequences; 11 Remembering and forgetting; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 0-511-05356-8
• 0-511-15206-X
• 0-511-00885-6

OCLC

51052200

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