The work will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers in intellectual property law, the history of technology, and legal and economic history.
Phillip Johnson is Professor of Commercial Law at Cardiff University, UK. His research interests include patent law, public law and legal history. His publications include a leading practitioner text, The Modern Law of Patents (Lexisnexis), and Privatised Law Reform: A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation, 1620–1907.