Bessen, James, 1958-

Patent failure how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / [electronic resource] : James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xi, 331 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index.

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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