Innovation and Its Discontents

Innovation and Its Discontents

How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and what to Do about it

by Adam B. Jaffe, Joshua Lerner

236 pages· 2004· ISBN 9780691117256
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An analysis of how recent legal changes in patenting wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity suggests a three-pronged solution for restoring the patent system that would create incentives, provide multiple levels of patent review, and replace juries with judges to preside over infringement cases.

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