Article ID: CBB945149100

Making Things New: Invention Privileges and the Configuration of Priority (2018)

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It was because of the early modern system of invention privileges that questions concerning inventorship became a recurrent subject matter of legal dispute. This essay focuses mainly on the details of one such dispute, namely the 1597 case litigated in the Dutch Republic between Jacob Floris van Langren (ca. 1525–1610) and Jodocus Hondius Sr. (1563–1612). The essay assesses how the law shaped, challenged, and constrained claims to innovation, pushing the argument that it was because of the privilege system that the borders between imitation and novelty became ever more clearly defined. The case study thus illustrates how the law functioned as a technology ordering a complex web of knowledge and status claims.

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Authors & Contributors
Bellido, Jose
Silbey, Jessica
Palomo, Miguel
Bass, Marisa Anne
Niedźwiedź, Jakub
Buning, Marius
Concepts
Technology and law
Inventors and invention
Patents
Controversies and disputes
Intellectual property
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
Early modern
Places
Netherlands
United States
Great Britain
Hague (Nethelands)
Lithuania
England
Institutions
Marconi Company
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