[Dissertation] Owning Ideas: A History of Anglo-American Intellectual Property

Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter I: Patents English and Colonial Origins A. Early Origins 1. Privilege Patents as Instruments of Royal Prerogative 2. Trade: The Concept of Invention 3. Characteristics of the Early Patent Grant Practice B. The Struggle against Monopolies: Common Law and the Statute of Monopolies 1. The Common Law Struggle against Monopolies a. Bad Monopolies and Good Monopolies 2. The Statute of Monopolies C. Patents for Invention in the late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century 1. The Declining Importance of Patent for Monopolies 2. The Lingering Prerogative Concept 3. The Transformation of the Concept of Invention 4. The Concept of Patents in Late Eighteenth Century England A. Colonial Patents B. State Patents Chapter II: Copyright English and Colonial Origins A. Early Copyright 1. Printing Patents a. The Emergence and Rise of Printing Patents 2. The Stationers’ Copyright a. Economic Interest Meets Political Interest Internal Guild Perspective Guild-State Power Perspective B. Subsequent Developments 1. The Decline of the Printing Patent 2. Copyright, Ownership and Authorship a. The Status of Authors C. English Copyright in the Eighteenth Century 1. The Statute of Anne 2. The Literary Property Struggle and Late Eighteenth Century Copyright A. Colonial Regulation of the Printing Press B. State Copyright 1. The Rise of Authors’ Copyright a. Individual Author’s Copyright 2. The States’ General Copyright Laws Interlude: the Constitutional Moment?! Chapter III: United States Copyright A. Federal Beginnings: The 1790 Copyright Act B. A Literary Property Struggle All Over Again: Wheaton v. Peters 1. Property in Ideas and the Materiality of the Text 2. Inventions and Books 3. The Public and the Private C. The Transformation of Copyright 1. Constructing the Work 2. Entitlements: Copyright as General Control 3. Subject Matter Year New Subject Matter Fig. 3 Expansion of Copyrightable Subject Matter 4. Authorship and Originality 5. Copyright at the Dawn of the Twentieth century Chapter IV. United States Patents A. From Patent Privileges to Patent Rights 1. The 1790 Patent Act: An Early Examination System? 2. The Registration Years 1793-1836 1836 Senate Committee Report 3. Patents in the Courts: The Rise and Fall of Utility 4. The Coming of Modern Patent Rights: 1836 and After B. Reconceptualizing the Invention 1. A Matter of Principle: The Invention as the Object of Property , 29 F. Cas. 1124. , 29 F. Cas. 1123, 1124. , independently of the machinery by which the application is made. f211 9 F. Cas. ,f336 Bradley wrote, and hence fsurely the identity of the process was 2. The Invention and the Genius: Inventing Non-Obviousness C. Patents at he Dawn of the Twentieth Century Chapter V. A Few Contextual Stories A. The Web of Causation B. Text: The Patterns of Modern Intellectual Property Law C. Context: Three Stories 1. The Rise of the Market 1836 Senate Committee Report 2. From the Commonwealth to the Liberal State: Privileges and Rights 3. Authorship and Inventors hip