Invented By Law - Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Beauchamp is Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Klappentext Christopher Beauchamp debunks the myth of Alexander Graham Bell as the telephone¿s sole inventor, exposing that story¿s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell¿s lawyers during fiercely contested battles for patent monopoly. The courts anointed Bell father of the telephone¿likely the most consequential intellectual property right ever granted. Zusammenfassung Christopher Beauchamp debunks the myth of Alexander Graham Bell as the telephone’s sole inventor, exposing that story’s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell’s lawyers during fiercely contested battles for patent monopoly. The courts anointed Bell father of the telephone—likely the most consequential intellectual property right ever granted.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Beauchamp
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2015
• EAN: 9780674368064
• ISBN: 978-0-674-36806-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, Law, LAW / Legal History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, LAW / Intellectual Property / Patent, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, Legal History, History of engineering and technology, History of the Americas, intellectual property law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Patents law