[Patents] further US studies on patflation

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:52:46PM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> 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): ³Can Patents Deter
> Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research², in: Science 280:
> 698-701 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/280/5364/698.pdf

or html
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5364/698

and abstract
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/280/5364/698

> Cohen, Julie und Lemley, Mark (2000): ³Patent Scope and Innovation in the
> Software Industry², in: Columbia Law Review 89(1): 1-57


        89 Calif. L. Rev. 1  - January, 2001
                  Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry
        http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/clr/library/cohen-lemley01.html


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