Book review: Patent Failure

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 12, 2008 9:52 PM EDT
Red Hat Magazine; By Ruth Suehle
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Patent Failure examines the current state of the American patent system based on the way it has traditionally been treated–as a type of property system. Using the yardstick of property rights and the economics they influence, Bessen and Meurer analyze the costs and benefits of patents to innovators. Their qualification: “If the estimated costs of the patent system to an innovator exceed the estimated benefits, then patents fail as property.”

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