Patents and Cartographic Inventions
A New Perspective for Map History
Published on 28. March 2017
XV, 267 pages
978-3-319-51040-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer, while the patent attorney was a co-author or ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate.
Reviews / Votes
"Monmonier's book provides a much-needed, in-depth, and deeply researched analysis of cartographic patents. Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History is recommended for those interested in understanding how cartographic innovations have developed over the past century and a half." (John J. Swab, Cartographic Perspectives, Issue 90, 2018)More details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 267 p. 88 illus.
File size
9,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-51040-8 (9783319510408)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-51040-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
04/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
€90.94
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Person
Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. For numerous papers on digital cartography and the history of cartography as well as 19 books, including
How to Lie with Maps
, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Geographical Society's O. M. Miller Medal, and the German Cartographic Society's Mercator Medal.
Content
1. Maps and Patents.- 2. Pinpointing Location.- 3. Showing the Way.- 4. Folding, Unfolding.- 5. World Views.- 6. Global Affairs.- 7. Current Events.- Appendix: How to Find a Patent.
