@article{26500,
      author = {Warshofsky, Fred,},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/26500},
      title = {The patent wars : the battle to own the world's technology  /},
      abstract = {From the "Diaper Wars" that pitted Procter & Gamble  against Kimberly-Clark to disputes over high-temperature  superconductors, veteran technology writer Fred Warshofsky  tracks patent litigation's path to becoming one of the most  potent financial tools of the 1990s. The stakes are  enormous. For example, Honeywell Inc. more than doubled its  net income for the third quarter of 1992 despite lower  operating revenue by winning some dozen patent infringement  suits against Japanese camera makers, including a tidy $96  billion from Minolta. Japanese companies frequently win. In  a revealing analysis of the patent wars in Japan,  Warshofsky shows how Japanese industries surround basic  patents with clusters of patent modifications. In the  global winner-take-all battle, this strategy gives them  effective control over the licensing and usefulness of the  original invention.},
      recid = {26500},
      pages = {298 pages ;},
}