Patent failure how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.
| Author/creator | Bessen, James, 1958- |
| Other author | Meurer, Michael James. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Princeton : Princeton University Press, |
| Description | xi, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007048854 |
| ISBN | 9780691134918 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 069113491X (hardcover : acid-free paper) |