1st Edition
Privatised Law Reform: A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation, 1620-1907
By Phillip Johnson
Copyright 2018
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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).
