Patent failure how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk /

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Main Author: Bessen, James, 1958-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Meurer, Michael James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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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.