AUD Library Catalog

Image from Google Jackets
Normal view MARC view

Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk / James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691134918 :
  • 069113491X :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF3114 .B47 2008
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.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
  • Monday - Friday
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Saturday - Sunday
  • Closed
  • Phone: +971 431 83183
  • Email: Library@aud.edu
  • Address: Sheikh Zayed Road -- P.O. Box 28282, Dubai, AE
  • Map & Directions