Patent failure [electronic resource] : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.
Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 331 p. : illISBN:- 9780691134918 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 069113491X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9781400828692 (e-book)
- 346.7304/86 22
- KF3114 .B47 2008eb
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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.
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