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. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines contemporary criticism of the patent system in the light of the changing conceptualisation of invention among natural scientists and political economists.
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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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Over the last two centuries, the word 'patent' has come to have a precise and technical meaning: a grant of monopoly powers over the commercial exploitation of an invention for a limited period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patents boom, rural metalworkers, new digester, patenting practice, patent system, patent records, patent totals, sole making, atmospheric engine, professional inventor, guild control, alkali industry, century patents, framework knitters, patent statistics, inventive activity, chemical revolution, single patent, proprietary medicines, economic writers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Privy Council, Attorney General, Statute of Monopolies, James Watt, Society of Arts, Solicitor General, Act of Parliament, Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon, Andrew Yarranton, Bubble Act, East India Company, John Kay, Joseph Bramah, Josiah Wedgwood, Lord Mansfield, Secretary of State, Sir Philip Howard, Thomas Lombe, Duke of Buckingham, Aaron Hill, Adam Smith, Civil War, Clockmakers Company New!
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Over the last two centuries, the word 'patent' has come to have a precise and technical meaning: a grant of monopoly powers over the commercial exploitation of an invention for a limited period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patents boom, rural metalworkers, new digester, patenting practice, patent system, patent records, patent totals, sole making, atmospheric engine, professional inventor, guild control, alkali industry, century patents, framework knitters, patent statistics, inventive activity, chemical revolution, single patent, proprietary medicines, economic writers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Privy Council, Attorney General, Statute of Monopolies, James Watt, Society of Arts, Solicitor General, Act of Parliament, Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon, Andrew Yarranton, Bubble Act, East India Company, John Kay, Joseph Bramah, Josiah Wedgwood, Lord Mansfield, Secretary of State, Sir Philip Howard, Thomas Lombe, Duke of Buckingham, Aaron Hill, Adam Smith, Civil War, Clockmakers Company New!
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