Bessen, James,  1958- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691134918 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 069113491X (hardcover : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007048854 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA819777  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014524552  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Patent laws and legislation--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF3114  / .B47 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.7304/86