The Economic Impact of the Patent System
Author: C. T. Taylor
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1973-12-06
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521202558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: C. T. Taylor
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1973-12-06
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521202558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Thomas Taylor (1938-, author)
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0309089107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.
Author: Fritz Machlup
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At head of title: 85th Cong., 2d sess. Committee print. Bibliography: p. 81-86.
Author: Australia. Law Reform Commission
Publisher: Virago Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 690
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Report of an inquiry concerned with two broad issues: the patenting of genetic materials and technologies, and the exploitation of these patents and the distinction that can and possibly should be made between discoveries and inventions when referring to claims over genetic sequences.
Author: Dominique Guellec
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-02
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? These questions and many more are addressed by two eminent scholars in this groundbreaking analysis of the economic foundations of the European patent system.
Author: E. Kaufer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1135645876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How effective are patents for stimulating economic activity? This volume provides an overview of existing national patent systems and suggests a revised system.
Author: James Bessen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-08-03
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1400828694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the media and to Congress that today's patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it. But like the infamous patent on the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, much of the cited evidence about the patent system is pure anecdote--making realistic policy formation difficult. Is the patent system fundamentally broken, or can it be fixed with a few modest reforms? Moving beyond rhetoric, Patent Failure provides the first authoritative and comprehensive look at the economic performance of patents in forty years. James Bessen and Michael Meurer ask whether patents work well as property rights, and, if not, what institutional and legal reforms are necessary to make the patent system more effective. Patent Failure presents a wide range of empirical evidence from history, law, and economics. The book's findings are stark and conclusive. While patents do provide incentives to invest in research, development, and commercialization, for most businesses today, patents fail to provide predictable property rights. Instead, they produce costly disputes and excessive litigation that outweigh positive incentives. Only in some sectors, such as the pharmaceutical industry, do patents act as advertised, with their benefits outweighing the related costs. By showing how the patent system has fallen short in providing predictable legal boundaries, Patent Failure serves as a call for change in institutions and laws. There are no simple solutions, but Bessen and Meurer's reform proposals need to be heard. The health and competitiveness of the nation's economy depend on it.
Author: Knut Blind
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781781958940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There has been continued debate in Europe over whether to change the patentability of software - or so-called computer-implemented inventions - and to follow the US model of allowing software patents. The European debate has shown a severe lack of empirical analysis on the possible impact of software patenting that goes beyond interest-driven rhetoric. This book seeks to address this shortcoming by taking a two-fold approach. Firstly, a survey of German software companies provides a representative overview of both general strategies to protect inventions and opinions regarding the future IPR regime in the context of innovation strategies - including the importance and use of Open Source software. Secondly, a series of case studies illustrate the varying impacts that patents and other protection strategies can have in specific contexts. This book provides both a theoretical overview of the economic impacts and policy implications of software patents, and an empirical foundation upon which to base a discussion on how to shape the intellectual property regime for software.