ISBN:
9783319510408
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 267 p. 88 illus, online resource)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Social Sciences
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Monmonier, Mark S., 1943 - Patents and cartographic inventions
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
DDC:
526.0973
Keywords:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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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