Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

by James Bessen, Michael J Meurer, Michael J. Meurer, et al.

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069113491X
• ISBN13: 9780691134918
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"