ISBN:
9783319510408
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (XV, 267 p. 88 illus, online resource)
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Serie:
SpringerLink
Serie:
Bücher
Serie:
Springer eBook Collection
Serie:
Social Sciences
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Monmonier, Mark S., 1943 - Patents and cartographic inventions
Paralleltitel:
Printed edition
DDC:
526.0973
Schlagwort(e):
Social sciences
;
Geographical information systems
;
Technology History
;
Social Sciences
;
Cartography History
;
United States
;
Cartography Technological innovations
;
History
;
United States
;
Patents History
;
United States
;
Technological innovations Law and legislation
;
History
;
United States
;
USA
;
Patent
;
Kartografie
;
Geoinformationssystem
;
Kartografie
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Patent
;
Kartografie
;
Geoinformationssystem
Kurzfassung:
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
Kurzfassung:
1. Maps and Patents -- 2. Pinpointing Location -- 3. Showing the Way -- 4. Folding, Unfolding -- 5. World Views -- 6. Global Affairs -- 7. Current Events -- Appendix: How to Find a Patent
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-51040-8
URL:
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