Amelia Rinehart on 19th Century Patent Pools & the Sherman Act

In this episode, Amelia Smith Rinehart, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, discusses her article "E. Bement & Sons v. National Harrow Company: The First Skirmish between Patent Law and the Sherman Act," which she wrote for the "Forgotten IP" symposium organized by Shubha Ghosh and Zvi Rosen, and published in the Syracuse Law Review. Rinehart describes the creation of the National Harrow Company in 1890, an early "patent pool," and how the Company's use of its harrow patents brought it into tension with the newly-enacted Sherman Act. She discusses the legal and policy questions at stake in the Supreme Court's opinion finding no Sherman Act violation in Bement, and how they inform the relationship between patent and antitrust law today. Rinehart is on Twitter at @ameliarinehart.Keywords: patent law, trusts, Harrow Trust, patent-antitrust cases Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.