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Know-How in Postwar Business and Law.

Douglas O'Reagan

    Technology and Culture
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    Businesses increasingly valued technical know-how, leading to licensing and legal efforts for intellectual property protection. Legal challenges shifted focus to trade secrets, impacting technology transfer understandings globally.

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    Area of Science:

    • Intellectual Property Law
    • Business History
    • Technology Transfer Studies

    Background:

    • Technical know-how emerged as a critical business asset in the mid-twentieth century.
    • Know-how encompassed tacit employee knowledge, incremental innovations, and localized adaptations.
    • This growing recognition spurred widespread know-how licensing agreements globally.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To examine the historical evolution of intellectual property protection for technical know-how.
    • To analyze the legal challenges and shifts in protecting business-related knowledge.
    • To understand the long-term impact of these legal developments on technology transfer.

    Main Methods:

    • Historical analysis of legal scholarship and business practices from the 1950s-1970s.
    • Review of Supreme Court decisions impacting intellectual property law.
    • Examination of the transition from know-how protection to trade secret lobbying.

    Main Results:

    • Early legal efforts to define and protect know-how were undermined by 1970s Supreme Court rulings.
    • A shift occurred towards lobbying for statutory protection of the narrower concept of trade secrets.
    • Despite its decline in US law, the concept of know-how influenced international legal systems and technology transfer.

    Conclusions:

    • The legal landscape for intellectual property protection of business know-how underwent significant transformation.
    • The shift towards trade secrets reflects a narrower legal approach to protecting intangible business assets.
    • The historical trajectory of know-how protection continues to influence contemporary understandings of global technology transfer.

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