Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History - Couverture souple

Monmonier, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319845519 ISBN 13 : 9783319845517

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer, while the patent attorney was a co-author or ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. For numerous papers on digital cartography and the history of cartography as well as 19 books, including How to Lie with Maps, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Geographical Society's O. M. Miller Medal, and the German Cartographic Society's Mercator Medal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319845519
• ISBN 13: 9783319845517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
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