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| + | '''Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk''' was written by [[James Bessen on software patents|James Bessen]] and [[Michael Meurer on software patents|Michael Meurer]], and published by Princeton University Press, 2008. | ||
| + | Discusses the inherent risks in granting [[software is too abstract|abstract]] patents such as [[software patents]] and claims that, in the [[USA]], the economic benefits of most patents ceased in the mid 1990s. | ||
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| + | ==Excerpts available online== | ||
* Ch1: [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8634.pdf Introduction: The Argument in Brief] | * Ch1: [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8634.pdf Introduction: The Argument in Brief] | ||
* Ch3: [http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/dopat3.pdf If You Can’t Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain’t Property] | * Ch3: [http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/dopat3.pdf If You Can’t Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain’t Property] | ||
| + | ** ''See: [[The notice problem]]'' | ||
* Ch9: [http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/dopat9.pdf Abstract Patents and Software] | * Ch9: [http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/dopat9.pdf Abstract Patents and Software] | ||
(source: http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ ) | (source: http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ ) | ||
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| + | ==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}== | ||
| + | * [[Books about software and patents]] | ||
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| + | ==External links== | ||
| + | * [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8634.html The book's homepage at Princeton University Press] | ||
| + | * [http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/06/12/book-review-patent-failure/ Book review by Red Hat Magazine] | ||
| + | * [http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/07/book-review-7-08.ars Review on Ars Technica], by [[Timothy B. Lee]] | ||
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| + | [[Category: Books]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:49, 8 October 2014
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk was written by James Bessen and Michael Meurer, and published by Princeton University Press, 2008.
Discusses the inherent risks in granting abstract patents such as software patents and claims that, in the USA, the economic benefits of most patents ceased in the mid 1990s.
Excerpts available online
- Ch1: Introduction: The Argument in Brief
- Ch3: If You Can’t Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain’t Property
- See: The notice problem
- Ch9: Abstract Patents and Software
(source: http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ )
