Innovation and its discontents : how our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress, and what to do about it / Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner.
Innovation and its discontents : how our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress, and what to do about it / Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner.
069111725X 9780691117256 cloth 9781400837342 electronic book 1400837340 electronic book 0691127948 9780691127941
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G 11 JAF.I
Summary
"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.
Note
"Third printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface by the authors, 2007."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
They fixed it, and now it's broke 1. Today's patent system at work 2. The dark side of patents 3. The long debate 4. The silent revolution 5. The slow starvation 6. The patent reform quagmire 7. Innovation and its discontents.
"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.