02844nam a2200433 i 4500 CR9781009479639 UkCbUP 20250826121359.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 230905s2024||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d 9781009479639 (ebook) 9781009479615 (hardback) 9781009479608 (paperback) UkCbUP eng rda UkCbUP n-us--- KF3114 .S55 2024 346.7304/86 23/eng/20231031 Sherman, Brad, author. 39976 Intangible intangibles : patent law's engagement with dematerialised subject matter / Brad Sherman. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge intellectual property and information law Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024). An impure law -- Informed material -- Speculative property -- Intangible machines -- A hybrid subject matter -- Fabian patents -- Bio-legal subject matter -- Molecular subject matter -- Postgenomic subject matter. Open Access. Unrestricted online access star This book takes as its starting point recent debates over the dematerialisation of subject matter which have arisen because of changes in information technology, molecular biology, and related fields that produced a subject matter with no obvious material form or trace. Arguing against the idea that dematerialisation is a uniquely twenty-first century problem, this book looks at three situations where US patent law has already dealt with a dematerialised subject matter: nineteenth century chemical inventions, computer-related inventions in the 1970s, and biological subject matter across the twentieth century. In looking at what we can learn from these historical accounts about how the law responded to a dematerialised subject matter and the role that science and technology played in that process, this book provides a history of patentable subject matter in the United States. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Patent laws and legislation United States. 293193 Intangible property United States. 608396 Intellectual property United States. Science and law United States. 608397 Technology and law United States. 560451 Print version: 9781009479615 Cambridge intellectual property and information law. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009479639 321010 321010