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

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Presenting a wide range of empirical evidence from history, law, and economics, this text is an authoritative and comprehensive look at the economic performance of patents. It asks whether patents work well as property rights, and, if not, what institutional and legal reforms are necessary to make t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bessen, James, 1958-
Other Authors: Meurer, Michael James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Patent laws and legislation > United States.
Law reform > United States.
Droit > Réforme > États-Unis.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW > Intellectual Property > Patent.
Law reform.
Patent laws and legislation.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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