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Article Dans Une Revue Socio-Economic Review Année : 2012

Patent Regimes, Firms and the Commodification of Knowledge

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This paper analyses the evolution of the intellectual property regime (IPR), and more precisely the patent regime, in the USA since the nineteenth century. To do so, we consider intellectual property laws within the context of wider changes in capitalism, focusing on two main historical phases: first, the period covering the formation and development of ‘corporate capitalism’ dominated by large corporations and then the new phase, which opened up in the 1980s, marked by the rise to power of finance. From a perspective of institutional complementarities, we seek to show how the characteristics and implications of patent regimes can only be understood in relation to changes in the main institutional forms of capitalism: forms of the firm, the status of labour (the ‘wage-labour nexus’) and market forms.
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hal-01361224 , version 1 (06-09-2016)

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Olivier Weinstein, Benjamin Coriat. Patent Regimes, Firms and the Commodification of Knowledge. Socio-Economic Review, 2012, 10 (2), pp.267-292. ⟨hal-01361224⟩
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