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Architectural Patents and Open‐Source Architectures: The Globalisation of Spatial Design Innovations (or Learning from ‘E99’)
Author(s) -
Garcia Mark
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2094
Subject(s) - greenwich , intellectual property , garcia , globalization , architecture , spatial design , open source , architectural engineering , engineering , software , management , sociology , law , political science , business , computer science , visual arts , economics , marketing , humanities , art , environmental science , soil science , engineering design process , programming language
Patents are the strongest form of intellectual property rights available internationally, so far unbeaten by open source as a body of innovation and know‐how. Mark Garcia , senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London, here considers the pros and cons of the patent system for architects in the digital age: from issues over patent categorisation by type, to possibilities of micro‐royalties through the capacity of design software to track every stage of input from multiple contributors.