From phm@a2e.de  Tue Sep 25 21:52:46 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:52:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] further US studies on patflation
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109252246280.16584-100000@querty.oas.a2e.de>

All the following studies seem to convey messages similar to what
Harvard's Joshua Lerner said in the commie magazine Bernard quoted here
the other day: patents are not promoting innovation these days, and this
is especially true in areas characterised by system complexity,
sequentiality or other salient features of software innovation.

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Cohen, Wesley M., Nelson, Richard R. und Walsh, John P. (2000): Protecting
their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S.
Manufacturing Firms Patent (or not). Cambridge: National Bureau of
Economic Research, Working Paper 7552 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7552

Eisenberg, Rebecca S. und Heller, Michael A. (1998): =B3Can Patents Deter
Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research=B2, in: Science 280:
698-701 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/280/5364/698.pdf

Cohen, Julie und Lemley, Mark (2000): =B3Patent Scope and Innovation in the
Software Industry=B2, in: Columbia Law Review 89(1): 1-57

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