Trade secrets
Subtitle: intellectual piracy and the origins of American industrial power
By: Doron S. Ben-Atar.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Business intelligence -- United States -- History.; Trade secrets -- United States -- History.; Technological innovations -- United States -- History.; Piracy (Copyright) -- United States -- History.; Industrial property -- United States -- History.
Description: "This book traces the evolution of America's contradictory approach to intellectual property rights from the colonial period to the age of Jackson." "During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Britain shared technological innovations selectively with its American colonies. It became less willing to do so once America's fledgling industries grew more competitive. After the Revolution, the leaders of the republic supported the piracy of European technology in order to promote the economic strength and political independence of the new nation. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States became a leader among industrializing nations and a major exporter of technology. It erased from national memory its years of piracy and became the world's foremost advocate of international laws regulating intellectual property."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.