Abstract

The ways in which a technology is invented, owned, and approved are strongly influenced by the same oppressive and exclusionary structures that critical librarianship interrogates. Patents, limited-term grants of rights to inventions, are issued to inventors in exchange for detailed specifications of the invention. This paper examines current practices used by business librarians in teaching students how find patents and how these practices could be critically informed given the nature of the United States patent system as it exists today. An output of this work is a suggested lesson plan with recommended resources.

中文翻译：

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教授专利检索的关键图书馆学方法：谁成为美国的发明家？

摘要

一项技术被发明、拥有和批准的方式受到批判图书馆所质疑的压迫性和排他性结构的强烈影响。专利是对发明的有限期授权，授予发明人以换取发明的详细说明。本文考察了商业图书馆员在教学生如何寻找专利以及鉴于美国专利制度今天存在的性质如何批判性地告知这些实践时使用的当前做法。这项工作的输出是带有推荐资源的建议课程计划。