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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009479639
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Book description

This book takes as its starting point recent debates over the dematerialisation of subject matter which have arisen because of changes in information technology, molecular biology, and related fields that produced a subject matter with no obvious material form or trace. Arguing against the idea that dematerialisation is a uniquely twenty-first century problem, this book looks at three situations where US patent law has already dealt with a dematerialised subject matter: nineteenth century chemical inventions, computer-related inventions in the 1970s, and biological subject matter across the twentieth century. In looking at what we can learn from these historical accounts about how the law responded to a dematerialised subject matter and the role that science and technology played in that process, this book provides a history of patentable subject matter in the United States. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Intangible Intangibles
    pp i-i
  • Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Intangible Intangibles - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Patent Law’s Engagement with Dematerialised Subject Matter
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-vi
  • Figures
    pp vii-viii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp ix-x
  • 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-14
  • 2 - An Impure Law
    pp 15-43
  • 3 - Informed Subject Matter
    pp 44-76
  • 4 - Speculative Property
    pp 77-115
  • 5 - Intangible Machines
    pp 116-136
  • 6 - A Hybrid Subject Matter
    pp 137-154
  • 7 - Fabian Patents
    pp 155-190
  • 8 - Bio-legal Subject Matter
    pp 191-223
  • 9 - Molecular Subject Matter
    pp 224-259
  • 10 - Postgenomic Subject Matter
    pp 260-277
  • 11 - Conclusion
    pp 278-283
  • Index
    pp 284-288
  • Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law - Series page
    pp 289-292

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