Historically, the United Kingdom has been a jurisdiction where, in relative terms, the law is more favourable to employers than to employees. This is certainly the case in comparison with some mainland European jurisdictions. In respect of ownership of employee inventions, the law is well...

This paper examines the relationship between patents, appropriability strategies and market for technologies in the English brewing industry before 1850. Previous research has pointed to the apparent oddity that large-scale brewing in this period was characterized both by a self-aware culture of...