The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920

摘要

This book is a legal and economic history of intellectual property (IP) institutions in the United States during the "long nineteenth century," examined "in the mirror of European experience" (p. 29). B. Zorina Khan, an economist, uses the cliometric approach to investigate a wide range of data sources including patent records and assignment contracts, infringement lawsuits, city directories, biographical dictionaries, publishing data, and copyright filings.