EAN: 9783319845517

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ...

This book explores the US patent system  which helped practical minded innovators establish
intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and
scholars alike. In this sense  the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting
institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the
patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer  while the patent attorney was a co-author or
ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty  non-obviousness  and cumulative
innovation  Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides  folding schemes  world map
projections  diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe  mechanical route-following machines
that anticipated the GPS navigator  and the early electrical you-are-here mall map  which
opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls  who treat the
patent largely as a license to litigate.

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