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

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.

Excerpts available online

• Ch1: Introduction: The Argument in Brief
• Ch3: If You Can’t Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain’t Property
• Ch9: Abstract Patents and Software

(source: http://researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/ )

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Books about software and patents

External links

• The book's homepage at Princeton University Press
• Book review by Red Hat Magazine