Présentation de l'éditeur
This volume offers new insight into key developments in the history of protection for patent rights during the period 1791-1883. The author presents a detailed examination of the underlying theoretical bases advanced for the protection of patents in various key European countries, and including new material focusing on the political rhetoric of protagonists and opponents of the patent system during the course of the patent abolitionist debates of the 1860s and 1870s. Finally, the book examines in detail the factors which prompted the movement towards international protection of patents, culminating in the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 France – Development of Legal and Philosophical Ideas Underlying the Patent System: 1790 to 1859
Chapter 2 UNITED KINGDOM: Development of Ideas and Concepts about the Theoretical Basis of the Patent System: 1790–1852
Chapter 3 UNITED KINGDOM: Development of Ideas and Concepts about the Theoretical Basis of the Patent System: 1853–1872
Chapter 4 Overview of Patent Abolition Debates
Chapter 5 Stepping into the International Arena
The Vienna Congress 1873
Chapter 6 Springtime in Paris
The Paris Conference 1878
Chapter 7 The Logical Conclusion
A Diplomatic Treaty
Conclusion Linking the Past, Present and Future
Postscript The Patent System and Current International Concerns
Appendix 1 A Note on the Meaning of the Terms “Socialist” and “Communist” in the 1840s and 1850s
Appendix 2 Questions Asked of Witnesses before the 1862–64 U.K. Select Committee on Patents and List of Individuals and Organisations Who Made Written Submissions
Appendix 3 Select List of Bilateral Commercial Treaties Containing Provisions Relating to Industrial Property before the Paris Convention
Appendix 4 Composition of the Preparatory Committee of the 1873 Vienna Congress
Appendix 5 Resolutions of the 1878 Paris Conference
Appendix 6 Permanent Committee – 1878 Paris
Appendix 7 Third Draft Treaty – Text
Appendix 8 Jagerschmidt Draft Treaty – Text
