Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
English | 352 pages | March 3, 2008 | 069113491X | PDF | 3,4 Mb
English | 352 pages | March 3, 2008 | 069113491X | PDF | 3,4 Mb
This is a pioneering and heroic effort to quantify the ways in which our patent system has failed to live up to its raison d'être: promoting innovation. The book will be controversial. But the authors make a forceful case that deserves to be heard.