The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law: The British.

Sherman, Brad; Bently, Lionel. The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law: The British Experience, 1760-1911. Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx, 242 pp. Black cloth hardcover, very good, in a very good dust jacket. $50. * Cambridge Studies in Intellectual Property Rights Series. "This book is the first detailed historical account of intellectual property law. In part, it examines why intellectual property law with its subcategories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks took the shape that it did over the course of the nineteenth century. In addition the authors deal with ways in which the law grants property status to intangibles and describe how the law came to create techniques that enabled it to recognize protectable intangibles, and the inescapable problems that have arisen from their use." Publisher's description.