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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.
2004
G 11 JAF.I
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Title
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.
Description
xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN
069111725X
9780691117256 cloth
9781400837342 electronic book
1400837340 electronic book
0691127948
9780691127941
9780691117256 cloth
9781400837342 electronic book
1400837340 electronic book
0691127948
9780691127941
Alternate Call Number
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.
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.
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Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
Language
English
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Review
"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.