Legal Definition and Related Resources of Patents

The rights granted to an inventor under federal Statutes relating to patents, to exclude others from making, using or selling the patented device . Confers a statutory monopoly protecting the patentee against unlicensed use of the patented device or process . See Sears, Roebuck & Co. v Stiffel Co., 376 U.S225, 84 S. Ct. 784, 11 L.Ed.2d 661. A patent is a species of property , which is incorporeal and personal , the jurisdiction over which follows the person of its owner . See De La Vergne Refrigerating Mach. Co. v Featherstone, 147 U.S. 209, 13 S.Ct. 283, 37 L.Ed. 138. Also see, 35 U.S.C.§261.

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BÂ…hmert, Viktor 1869 Die Erfindungspatente nach volkswirtschaftlichen Grundsätzen und industriellen Erfahrungen. Vierteljahrschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Kulturgeschichte 25:28-106.

Chevalier, Michel 1878 Les brevets d’invention examinés dans leurs rapports avec le principe de la liberté du travail et avec le principe de l’égalité des citoyens. Paris: Guillaumin.

Folk, George E. 1942 Patents and Industrial Progress: A Summary, Analysis, and Evaluation of the Record on Patents of the Temporary National Economic Committee. New York: Harper.

Fox, Harold G. 1947 Monopolies and Patents: A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly.Univ. of Toronto Press.

Gilfillan, S. Colum 1964 Invention and the Patent System. Materials presented for the consideration of the U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Hamilton, Walton H. 1941 Patents and Free Enterprise. U.S. Temporary National Economic Committee, Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power, Monograph No. 31. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Hulme, Edward W. (1896-1902) 1909 The Early History of the English Patent System. With a list of monopoly grants for new industries and inventions, A.D. 1554-1603. Boston: Little. _ First published in the Law Quarterly Review.

Jewkes, John; Sawers, David; and Stillerman, Richard 1958 The Sources of Invention. New York: St. Martins.

Macfie, Robert A. (editor) 1869 Recent Discussions on the Abolition of Patents for Inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands. London: Longmans.

Machlup, Fritz 1958 An Economic Review of the Patent System. U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights, Study No. 15. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Machlup, Fritz; and Penrose, Edith T. 1950 The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of Economic History 10:1-29.

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Mandich, Giulio 1948 Venetian Patents, 1450-1550. Journal of the Patent Office Society 30:166-224.

Meinhardt, Peter (1946) 1950 Inventions, Patents, and Monopoly. 2d ed. London: Stevens.

Neumeyer, Fredrik 1956 A Contribution to the History of Modern Patent Legislation in the United States and in France. Scandinavian Economic History Review 4:126-150.

Patent Office Society 1936 Outline of the History of the United States Patent Office. Journal of the Patent Office Society 18:5-234.

Penrose, Edith T. 1951 The Economics of the International Patent System. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Plant, Arnold 1934 The Economic Theory Concerning Patents for Inventions. Economica New Series 1: 30-51.

Polanyi, Michael 1944 Patent Reform. Review of Economic Studies 11:61-76.

Price, William H. 1906 The English Patents of Monopoly. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Prince-Smith, John 1863 Ueber Patente fiir Erfindungen. Vierteljahrschrift fiir Volkswirtschaft und Kulturgeschichte 3:150-161.

Rentzsch, Hermann (1866a) 1870 Geistiges Eigenthum. Pages 333-338 in Hermann Rentzsch (editor),Handwörterbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre. 2d ed. Leipzig: Klinkhardt.

Rentzsch, Hermann (1866b) 1870 Patentwesen. Pages 625-636 in Hermann Rentzsch (editor), Handworterbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre. 2d ed. Leipzig: Klinkhardt.

Rogers, James E. Thorold 1863 On the Rationale and Working of the Patent Laws. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 26:121-142.

Schäffle, Albert E. F. 1867 Die nationalokonomische Theorie der ausschliessenden Absatzverhdltnisse, insbesondere des literarisch-artistischen Urheberrechtes, des Patent-, Muster- und Firmenschutzes nebst Beitrügen zur Grundrentenlehre. Tübingen (Germany): Laupp.

Silberstein, Marcel 1961 Erfindungsschutz und merkantilistische Gewerbeprivilegien. Zurich: Polygraphischer Verlag.

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