Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned
by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book …

… The information that an invention is needed takes the … , invention, and development firms,
the price of an invention to a development firm would equal the marginal cost of the invention to …

… disagreements over which" invention" the courts should … of invention currently in play in
patent decisions. The first is an" external invention" definition, in which courts define the invention …

… that invention is inextricably linked with questions of arrangement, since the principles of
invention … Ancient handbooks on invention were often organized on this basis, for good practical …

Shoplifting is an ancient, though not honorable, art. Reports of criminal theft from shops and
stalls appeared in Elizabethan England.'Moll Flanders was sent to Newgate Prison for …

… They have not been very prolific in the invention of institutions to encourage invention. In
particular, it is extraordinary how the Patent System goes on largely unchallenged, much as …

A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of
communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact-from …

he short cycle of six elegiac poems in the Corpus Tibullianum attributed to Sulpicia (4.7-12)
has occasioned considerable scholarly interest in recent years,'but its context and authorship …

" The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond the apparently
irreconcilable positions, that science is either" objective" or" socially constructed." Instead, …

… discovery apart from invention (Miller; Watson). In an often-quoted paragraph, Francis
Bacon would assert, “The invention of speech or argument is not properly an invention: for to …