Mr Patent goes to war! Industrial property and the breakdown of the international order during World War I

Johnson, Phillip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-0732 2022. Mr Patent goes to war! Industrial property and the breakdown of the international order during World War I. Morris, P. Sean, ed. Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860-1920, Legal History Library, vol. 58. Brill, pp. 150-179. (10.1163/9789004511439_006)

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Abstract

The end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the birth, and repeated amendment, of the Paris Convention on the protection of industrial property. Yet in the summer of 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, the international legal order broke down and the founding members of these Conventions took up arms against each other. The attack on the enemy was both martial and commercial, which meant that intellectual property laws had to be drastically changed to prevent the ‘enemy’ benefiting from the system. This chapter uses the Peace Treatises of Versailles and Saint Germain to explore the response of the belligerents to the ‘laws of war’ as they applied to enable the suspension of enemy owned patents, designs, and registered trade marks. Ultimately, it is shown that industrial property right were protected even if the proprietor was not.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DB Austria D History General and Old World > DC France D History General and Old World > DD Germany K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KZ Law of Nations
Publisher:	Brill
ISBN:	9789004439818
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 February 2021
Last Modified:	08 Jul 2024 14:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138328

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