An Economic Review of the Patent System
Author: Fritz Machlup
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt head of title: 85th Cong., 2d sess. Committee print. Bibliography: p. 81-86.
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The Democratization of Invention
Author: B. Zorina Khan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-12
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521811354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'.
A Patent System for the 21st Century
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0309089107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0309048338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs technological developments multiply around the globeâ€"even as the patenting of human genes comes under serious discussionâ€"nations, companies, and researchers find themselves in conflict over intellectual property rights (IPRs). Now, an international group of experts presents the first multidisciplinary look at IPRs in an age of explosive growth in science and technology. This thought-provoking volume offers an update on current international IPR negotiations and includes case studies on software, computer chips, optoelectronics, and biotechnologyâ€"areas characterized by high development cost and easy reproducibility. The volume covers these and other issues: Modern economic theory as a basis for approaching international IPRs. U.S. intellectual property practices versus those in Japan, India, the European Community, and the developing and newly industrializing countries. Trends in science and technology and how they affect IPRs. Pros and cons of a uniform international IPRs regime versus a system reflecting national differences.
Genes and Ingenuity
Author: Australia. Law Reform Commission
Publisher: Virago Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReport 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.
Patent Politics
Author: Shobita Parthasarathy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-02-21
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 022643785X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion
Innovation and Its Discontents
Author: Adam B. Jaffe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1400837340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting--an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation--have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity. Jaffe and Lerner, who have spent the past two decades studying the patent system, show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted the system from a stimulator of innovation to a creator of litigation and uncertainty that threatens the innovation process itself. In one telling vignette, Jaffe and Lerner cite a patent litigation campaign brought by a a semi-conductor chip designer that claims control of an entire category of computer memory chips. The firm's claims are based on a modest 15-year old invention, whose scope and influenced were broadened by secretly manipulating an industry-wide cooperative standard-setting body. Such cases are largely the result of two changes in the patent climate, Jaffe and Lerner contend. First, new laws have made it easier for businesses and inventors to secure patents on products of all kinds, and second, the laws have tilted the table to favor patent holders, no matter how tenuous their claims. After analyzing the economic incentives created by the current policies, Jaffe and Lerner suggest a three-pronged solution for restoring the patent system: create incentives to motivate parties who have information about the novelty of a patent; provide multiple levels of patent review; and replace juries with judges and special masters to preside over certain aspects of infringement cases. Well-argued and engagingly written, Innovation and Its Discontents offers a fresh approach for enhancing both the nation's creativity and its economic growth.
The Economics of the Patent System
Author: E. Kaufer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1135645876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow effective are patents for stimulating economic activity? This volume provides an overview of existing national patent systems and suggests a revised system.
Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World
Author: Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-11-20
Total Pages: 898
ISBN-13: 3540887431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last two decades, accelerating technological progress, increasing economic globalization and the proliferation of international agreements have created new challenges for intellectual property law. In this collection of articles in honor of Professor Joseph Straus, more than 60 scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Asia and Europe provide legal, economic and policy perspectives on these challenges, with a particular focus on the challenges facing the modern patent system. Among the many topics addressed are the rapid development of specific technical fields such as biotechnology, the relationship of exclusive rights and competition, and the application of territorially limited IP laws in cross-border scenarios.
The Battle Over Patents
Author: Stephen H. Haber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 019757615X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis essay is the introduction to a book of the same title, forthcoming in summer of 2021 from Oxford University Press. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in any way they can, and consequently, they are riven with imperfections. The interesting historical question is why US-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays in the book suggest that the creation of a tradable but temporary property right facilitates the transfer of technological knowledge and thus fosters a highly productive decentralized ecology of inventors and firms.
