Patents
Subtitle: Bubblewrap, Bottlecaps, Barbed Wire, and Other Ingenious Inventions
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781579123673
Subjects: Inventions & inventors; Technology & Industrial Arts; Social Science; Sociology; Inventions; Technology / Inventions; Popular works; Popular Culture - General; Technology
First sentence: Although many of the United States's original thirteen colonies upheld some form of patent law, the original concept of the patent, as we now know it, was not a uniquely American idea.