9780300100068
Trade Secrets - Doron S. Ben-Atar
Yale University Press (2004)
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Business intelligence - History, Trade secrets - History, Technological innovations - History, Piracy (Copyright) - History, Industrial property - History

During the first decades of America's existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for protecting industrial innovations. 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.

Product Details
LoC Classification HD38.7 .B455 2004
Dewey 338.0973
Format Hardcover
Cover Price 40,00 €
No. of Pages 304
Height x Width 220 mm
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