Innovation and its discontents
how our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress, and what to do about it
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Author
Contributions
- Lerner, Joshua. - Contributor
Publication
2004 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
59,000 words, Guess
Page Count
236 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3303267M
- ISBN-10069111725X
- OCLC Control Number54046775
- OCLC Control Numberinnovationitsdis00jaff
- Library of Congress Control Number2004044250
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- Goodreads1501330
- LibraryThing324829
Classifications
- DDC346.7304/86
- LCCKF3120 .J34 2004
Description
"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. The increase in litigation is 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"--BOOK JACKET.
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