TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bessen,James
AU  - Meurer,Michael James
TI  - Patent failure: how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk 
SN  - 9780691134918 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
AV  - KF3114 .B47 2008
U1  - 346.7304/86 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Patent laws and legislation
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index; The argument in brief -- Why property rights work, how property rights fail -- If you can't tell the boundaries, then it ain't property -- Survey of empirical research : do patents perform like property? -- What are U.S. patents worth to their owners? -- The cost of disputes -- How important is the failure of patent notice? -- Small inventors -- Abstract patents and software -- Making patents work as property -- Reforms to improve notice -- A glance forward
ER  -