Add to ORKGIn this paper, I consider the construction of patents as social practices. The goal is to observe patents in action, that is, to catch patents in the act of becoming patents. This method of “following the action” is well established in the sociology of science. Similar consideration of the artifices by which a new patent is staged reveals parallels to the known staging of technical papers, including the recruitment of rhetorical allies, se¬mantic fortification against subsequent challenges, and trials of cognitive strength. In each situation, assertions become stabilized facts only if subsequent recipients are in¬duced to accept them as such. However, the patent is formed in a process that largely sidesteps the mechanisms of peer review and...
(Excerpt) This Article constructs a linguistics-based framework to consider claim construction and d...
Simply making empirical progress is not always enough to influence policy, as demonstrated by the po...
In this book chapter, we look at the effect of commodification on scientific and technological, as o...
Patent law remains stubbornly undertheorized; we have surprisingly little understanding of the socia...
Patent law remains stubbornly undertheorized; we have surprisingly little understanding of the socia...
Recent commentary on the patent system has argued that there is little evidence supporting the incen...
Recent commentary on the patent system has argued that there is little evidence supporting the incen...
In recent decades, the Patent and Trademark Office and the federal courts have dramatically expanded...
Recent studies of patents have argued that the very materiality and techniques of legal media, such ...
Recent studies of patents have argued that the very materiality and techniques of legal media, such ...
Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repea...
Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repea...
Like other forms of intellectual property, patents have increasingly been the subject of controversy...
Like other forms of intellectual property, patents have increasingly been the subject of controversy...
Recent studies of patents have argued that the very materiality and techniques of legal media, such ...
(Excerpt) This Article constructs a linguistics-based framework to consider claim construction and d...
Simply making empirical progress is not always enough to influence policy, as demonstrated by the po...
In this book chapter, we look at the effect of commodification on scientific and technological, as o...
Patent law remains stubbornly undertheorized; we have surprisingly little understanding of the socia...
Patent law remains stubbornly undertheorized; we have surprisingly little understanding of the socia...
Recent commentary on the patent system has argued that there is little evidence supporting the incen...
Recent commentary on the patent system has argued that there is little evidence supporting the incen...
In recent decades, the Patent and Trademark Office and the federal courts have dramatically expanded...
Recent studies of patents have argued that the very materiality and techniques of legal media, such ...
Recent studies of patents have argued that the very materiality and techniques of legal media, such ...
Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repea...
Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repea...
Like other forms of intellectual property, patents have increasingly been the subject of controversy...
Like other forms of intellectual property, patents have increasingly been the subject of controversy...
Recent studies of patents have argued that the very materiality and techniques of legal media, such ...
(Excerpt) This Article constructs a linguistics-based framework to consider claim construction and d...
Simply making empirical progress is not always enough to influence policy, as demonstrated by the po...
In this book chapter, we look at the effect of commodification on scientific and technological, as o...