Privatised Law Reform

A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation, 1620-1907
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59398-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 425 g

In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined. This is largely due to the raft of failed or timid attempts at patent law reform. Yet there was another way of seeking change. By the end of the nineteenth century, private legislation had become a mechanism or testing ground for more general law reforms. The evolution of the law had essentially been privatised and was handled in the committee rooms in Westminster. This is known in relation to many great industrial movements such as the creating of railways, canals and roads, or political movements such as the powers and duties of local authorities, but it has thus far been largely ignored in the development of patent law. This book addresses this shortfall and examines how private legislation played an important role in the birth of modern patent law.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz allg., Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on sources

Table of cases

Tables of legislation

- A history of patents

- Private Bill procedure

- The beginnings

- The protection of inventions by enactment

- The non obstante clause and the right to work

- The restriction and regulation of company patents

- The specification and its concealment

- The prolongation of patents

- The grant of Parliamentary rewards: an alternative

- Restoration and renewal fees

- Re-dating and priority fights

- The end of private business

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Johnson is the Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University. His research interests include patent law, public law, and legal history. His publications include a leading practitioner text, the Modern Law of Patents (LexisNexis), and Parliament, Inventions and Patents: A Research Guide and Bibliography (Routledge).