[Sci-tech-public] FW: "Tangibles of Intangibles: Patent Models and the Making of Intellectual Property Law"

[David Mindell]

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From: Marcus Dahmen [mailto:mdahmen at fas.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:48 PM
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Subject: "Tangibles of Intangibles: Patent Models and the Making of
Intellectual Property Law"

Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Science Center 469
May 1, 1:00-5:00.


TANGIBLES OF INTANGIBLES:
Patent Models and the Making of Intellectual Property Law


1:00 - MATTHEW JONES, (Columbia)
"'Only the Real and Solid Satisfies M. Colbert': Deferral and Revelation 
around
Early Modern Technical Models"
(commentary by Jean Francois Gauvin (Harvard))

2:00 - ALAIN POTTAGE (London School of Economics)
"Models and the Mechanical Manufacture of Modern Patent Law"
(commentary by Mario Biagioli (Harvard))

3:00 - WILLIAM RANKIN (Harvard)
"The Ends of Naturalism and the End of Models: What Does it Mean to Draw an
Invention?"
(commentary by Jimena Canales (Harvard))

4:00 - MYLES JACKSON (Polytechnic Institute and NYU)
"Patenting the Wrong Sequence: Gene Deposits as Models?"
(Commentary by Kara Swanson (Harvard))


The opening of a new exhibit on 19th-century patent models -- "Patent 
Republic:
Materialities of Intellectual Property in 19th-Century America" -- will 
follow
at 5PM in the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Science
Center, Harvard University.

-- 
Marcus Dahmen

Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-2901
Tel: 617.496.6436
Fax: 617.495.3344
Email: mdahmen at fas.harvard.edu
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