Law machines: Scale models, forensic materiality and the making of modern patent law

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 621-643

  Pottage, Alain ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

concept of invention; intellectual property; law and science; patent models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERT WITNESS; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PATENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EXPERT TESTIMONY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATENTS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052821096     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312711408484     Document Type: Article

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