Research for a real-time book. Typologies of Intellectual Property is a "living" book that graphically represents the world of intellectual property at the precise moment the book is ordered through one of several online retailers or via this website. It shows how a dense network of multi-national corporations, patent brokers and law firms dominates the world of intellectual property. Whenever someone orders the book online, a newly generated version of the book is printed on demand and sent by mail. Each time someone orders the book, a unique iteration serves as a graphic sample of a hidden world that shapes the future of ideas.
Typologies of Intellectual Property is a printed realtime visualization of the United States Patent and Trademark Office weekly dataset and is based on the website with the same name that I made in 2009.