Subject(s): Global Politics -- Technological development -- International Law -- Intellectual property- global governance and history -- Ideas and technology: Justifying intellectual property, triangulating the history of intellectual property, contestation and change in history of intellectual property -- Emergence of intellectual property rights : Early antecedent of intellectual property, venetian moment, patents, printing and venetian economy -- Commerce v/s romantic notions of authorship and invention : Continental development, British innovations in patents, copyrights, early modern period of intellectual property -- Nineteenth century- technological development and international law : Intellectual property as public policy, international diversity of law, patent controversy to Paris and Bern, Thomas Edison- patents as business strategy, copyrights, ascendance of German chemical industry -- Twentieth century- intellectual property rights consolidated : Trust-busting and artels, skepticism about intellectual property rights after 1945, property rights resurgent, twentieth century copyright, multilateral settlement -- Twenty first century- TRIPs : Contestation, bilateralism ad problem of legitimacy -- Global politics of intellectual property, resurgence of world intellectual property organization, political implications