Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / / James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 331 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • The argument in brief
  • Why property rights work, how property rights fail
  • If you can't tell the boundaries, then it ain't property
  • Survey of empirical research : do patents perform like property?
  • What are U.S. patents worth to their owners?
  • The cost of disputes
  • How important is the failure of patent notice?
  • Small inventors
  • Abstract patents and software
  • Making patents work as property
  • Reforms to improve notice
  • A glance forward.