TY - BOOK
T1 - Patent policy and innovation
T2 - Do legal rules deliver effective economic outcomes?
AU - Moir, Hazel V.J.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This book presents a compelling attack on the patent system. Thoughtfully analyzing the existing empirical literature and providing her own painstaking study of business method patents, Hazel Moir explains how it is that, despite the intuitions of economists, social scientists, lawyers, judges, and even some inventors, patents have spread geographically and technologically, with increasingly broad rights becoming ever-easier to obtain. Bravely and persuasively, she recommends policymakers tackle one of the most vexing issues in patent law: the quantum of new knowledge that ought to be required to make an invention worthy of protection.'
AB - This book presents a compelling attack on the patent system. Thoughtfully analyzing the existing empirical literature and providing her own painstaking study of business method patents, Hazel Moir explains how it is that, despite the intuitions of economists, social scientists, lawyers, judges, and even some inventors, patents have spread geographically and technologically, with increasingly broad rights becoming ever-easier to obtain. Bravely and persuasively, she recommends policymakers tackle one of the most vexing issues in patent law: the quantum of new knowledge that ought to be required to make an invention worthy of protection.'
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881833618&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4337/9780857932792
DO - 10.4337/9780857932792
M3 - Book
SN - 9780857932785
BT - Patent policy and innovation
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
ER -