"Technologies have created crucial connections across borders requiring new forms of regulation. This book analyses how experts, cartels and international organizations have written the rules for Europe since around 1850. Based on fresh research in the archives of multiple international...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Special Issue: Patents in History -- Introduction. An Imperfection of Institutions -- Notes and References -- Antecedents to Intellectual Property: the European Pre-history of the...