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Titre(s) : The battle over patents [Texte imprimé] : history and politics of innovation / edited by Stephen H. Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publication : New York (N.Y) : Oxford university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-374 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Haber, Stephen H. (1957-....). Éditeur scientifique
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (1950-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Brevets d'invention -- Aspect économique
Brevets d'invention -- Histoire
Innovation -- Aspect économique
Indice(s) Dewey :
338.064 (23e éd.) = Efficacité de la production - Effet des innovations technologiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197576151. - ISBN 019757615X. - ISBN 9780197576168. - ISBN 0197576168. -
ISBN 9780197576182 (erroné). - ISBN 9780197576199 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47092532s
Notice n° :
FRBNF47092532
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Résumé : "Do patents facilitate or frustrate innovation? Lawyers, economists, and politicians
who have staked out strong positions in this debate often attempt to validate their
claims by invoking the historical record-but they typically get the history wrong.
The purpose of this book is to get the history right by showing that patent systems
are the product of contending interests at different points in production chains battling
over economic surplus. The larger the potential surplus, the more extreme are the
efforts of contending parties, now and in the past, to search out, generate, and exploit
any and all sources of friction. Patent systems, as human creations, are therefore
necessarily ridden with imperfections; nirvana is not on the menu. The most interesting
intellectual issue is not how patent systems are imperfect, but why historically US-style
patent systems have come to dominate all other methods of encouraging inventive activity.
The answer offered by the essays in this volume is that they create a temporary property
right that can be traded in a market, thereby facilitating a productive division of
labor and making it possible for firms to transfer technological knowledge to one
another by overcoming the free-rider problem. Precisely because the value of a patent
does not inhere in the award itself but rather in the market value of the resulting
property right, patent systems foster a decentralized ecology of inventors and firms
that ceaselessly extends the frontiers of what is economically possible"
Table des matières : Preface / / Stephen H. Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux ; ; Introduction :. The battle
over the surplus from innovation / / Stephen H. Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux ; ;
Patents in the history of the semiconductor industry: the Ricardian Hypothesis / /
Alexander Galetovic ; ; Do patents foster international technology transfer? Evidence
from Spanish steelmaking, 1850 -- 1930 / / Victor Menaldo ; ; Did James Watt's patent(s)
really delay the industrial revolution? / / Sean Bottomley ; ; Dousing the fires
of patent litigation / / Christopher Beauchamp ; ; Ninth circuit nursery : patent
litigation and industrial development on the Pacific Coast, 1891 -- 1925 / / Steven
W. Usselman ; ; The great patent grab / / Jonathan M. Burnett ; ; The long history
of software patenting in the United States / / Gerardo Con Diaz ; ; History matters
: national innovation systems and innovation policies in nations / / B. Zorina Khan.
