Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk

James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer

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.

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  • Preface ix Chapter 1: The Argument in Brief 1 Chapter 2: Why Property Rights Work, How Property Rights Fail 29 Chapter 3: If You Can't Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain't Property 46 Chapter 4: Survey of Empirical Research: Do Patents Perform Like Property? 73 Chapter 5: What Are U.S. Patents Worth to Their Owners? 95 Chapter 6: The Cost of Disputes 120 Chapter 7: How Important Is the Failure of Patent Notice? 147 Chapter 8: Small Inventors 165 Chapter 9: Abstract Patents and Software 187 Chapter 10: Making Patents Work as Property 215 Chapter 11: Reforms to Improve Notice 235 Chapter 12: A Glance Forward 254 Notes 261 References 295 Index 315

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書名 Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk
著作者等 Bessen, James
Meurer, Michael James
Meurer Michael J.
出版元 Princeton University Press
刊行年月 c2008
ページ数 xi, 331 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9780691143217
9780691134918
NCID BA85938582
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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