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Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It /

The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jaffe, Adam B.
Otros Autores: Lerner, Joshua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.
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Sumario:The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting--an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation--have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity. Jaffe and Lerner, who have spent the past two decades studying the patent system, show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400837342