patent law's engagement with dematerialised subject matter Sherman, Brad creator author. text enk 2024 monographic eng 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. 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. Brad Sherman. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024). Open Access. Unrestricted online access star n-us--- Patent laws and legislation United States Intangible property United States Intellectual property United States Science and law United States Technology and law United States KF3114 .S55 2024 346.7304/86 9781009479639 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009479639 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009479639 Open Access. UkCbUP 230905 20250826121359.0 CR9781009479639 eng