From phm@a2e.de  Sat Jul 28 07:21:22 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:21:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Berkely study on patents for complex technologies
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107280818570.1307-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

Here's an interesting paper by David Teece (well-known economist at
Berkeley) and Deepak Somaya that sounds strong cautionary notes on patents
for complex technologies:

http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/lbpp/dsomaya/Papers/DSDT00.pdf

It can be seen complementary to Bessen-Maskin which focuses on dynamic
complexity.

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