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Protecting biotechnology inventions : a guide for scientists
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ISBN: 3540501037 Year: 1988 Publisher: Berlin Springer

Innovation and its discontents : how our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress, and what to do about it.
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ISBN: 9780691127941 0691127948 069111725X 9786613133380 1400837340 1283133385 9781400837342 9780691117256 Year: 2004 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university

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The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting--an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation--have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity. Jaffe and Lerner, who have spent the past two decades studying the patent system, show how legal changes initiated in the 1980's converted the system from a stimulator of innovation to a creator of litigation and uncertainty that threatens the innovation process itself. In one telling vignette, Jaffe and Lerner cite a patent litigation campaign brought by a a semi-conductor chip designer that claims control of an entire category of computer memory chips. The firm's claims are based on a modest 15-year old invention, whose scope and influenced were broadened by secretly manipulating an industry-wide cooperative standard-setting body. Such cases are largely the result of two changes in the patent climate, Jaffe and Lerner contend. First, new laws have made it easier for businesses and inventors to secure patents on products of all kinds, and second, the laws have tilted the table to favor patent holders, no matter how tenuous their claims. After analyzing the economic incentives created by the current policies, Jaffe and Lerner suggest a three-pronged solution for restoring the patent system: create incentives to motivate parties who have information about the novelty of a patent; provide multiple levels of patent review; and replace juries with judges and special masters to preside over certain aspects of infringement cases. Well-argued and engagingly written, Innovation and Its Discontents offers a fresh approach for enhancing both the nation's creativity and its economic growth.


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The legal protection of biotechnological inventions in Europe and in The United States : current framework and future developments technical and ethical approach
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ISBN: 9061868467 Year: 1997 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leuven : Leuven university press = Universitaire pers Leuven,

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Biotechnology : an industry comes of age
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ISBN: 0309036313 030930024X 9780309036313 Year: 1986 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): National academy press,

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