Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk /
Bessen, James, 1958-
Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xi, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index.
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.
9780691134918 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 069113491X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2007048854
GBA819777 bnb
014524552 Uk
Patent laws and legislation--United States.
KF3114 / .B47 2008
346.7304/86
Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xi, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index.
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.
9780691134918 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 069113491X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
2007048854
GBA819777 bnb
014524552 Uk
Patent laws and legislation--United States.
KF3114 / .B47 2008
346.7304/86