Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (Studies in Legal History)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1469622203 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Fisk is Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Catherine L
This deeply contested development was won at the expense of workers' entrepreneurial independence and ultimately, Fisk argues, economic democracy.By reviewing judicial decisions and legal scholarship on all aspects of employee-generated intellectual property and combing the archives of major nineteenth-century intellectual property-producing companies--including DuPont, Rand McNally, and the American Tobacco Company--Fisk makes a highly technical area of law accessible to general readers while also addressing scholarly deficiencies in the histories of labor, intellectual property, and the business of technology.. Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain legal ownership of employee-generated intellectual property. In Working Knowledge, Catherine Fisk chronicles the legal a
Highly recommended.--Choice. Fisk weaves together an exemplary narrative about the development of the modern American intellectual property regime…this masterful book is certain to remain the final word on this topic for a considerable amount of time.-- Essays in HistoryVery readable and well-organized of great interest to those specializing in contemporary aspects of intellectual property and labor and employment law, as well as to historians of labor, business, and technology.--IP Law Book ReviewWell worth the wait.--EH.NetThis is a remarkable book, with a great deal of new information and a fresh perspective on the truly decentralized and diverse mechanisms that led to the corporate control of innovative activity we so often see today." --Journal of American HistoryA detailed, thoughtful study that makes effective use of archival business histories t
"How the American Employee Inventor has lost IP rights to Corporations over time." according to Dave Marcs. I bought two copies of this book several years ago and still use it as reference. One copy I kept and the other copy was give to a patent attorney that I have worked with.The author outlines very clearly the history of how employee inventors have been stripped of righ. Five Stars Great historical account of evolution of the work place knowledge.