Patents and Publics: Engaging Museum Audiences with Issues of Ownership and Invention

It is all very well to note the hyperbole about patents and ‘intellectual property’ in the recent battles between technology companies such as Apple, Samsung and HTC. But how can museums productively use collection items marked with a patent beyond workaday tasks of identification and cataloguing? W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: James F. Stark, Graeme Gooday
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2014-07-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/250