TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherman,Brad
TI  - Intangible intangibles: patent law's engagement with dematerialised subject matter 
T2  - Cambridge intellectual property and information law
SN  - 9781009479639 (ebook)
AV  - KF3114 .S55 2024
U1  - 346.7304/86 23/eng/20231031
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Patent laws and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Intangible property
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Science and law
KW  - Technology and law
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024); An impure law -- Informed material  -- Speculative property -- Intangible machines -- A hybrid subject matter -- Fabian patents -- Bio-legal subject matter -- Molecular subject matter -- Postgenomic subject matter; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009479639
ER  -