Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … British patent system prior to its reform in 1852 was cumbersome and expensive. Whether it facilitated or delayed the … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics …

to patent. Our study records how brewery innovators pursued a wide variety of highly distinct appropriability strategies … strategies could co-exist, although some brewery insiders maintaineda suspicion of the promoters of patent technologies which … could support trade in inventions even without the use of the patent system. …

warfare was an important factor in explaining Britain's industrialisation, by encouraging the invention and diffusion of key …

claimed invention based on a combination or modification of a prior art reference. Sri Lanka, as a developing country, should … look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when …