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Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries - Software and Biotechnology (Paperback)
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Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries - Software and Biotechnology (Paperback)
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Of all the controversies surrounding the current U.S. patent system
- and there are many - the debate over intellectual property rights
in high-technology industries is one of the most strident. Both
software and biotechnology are dynamic, fast growing, and
increasingly important fields. Creating the right incentives for
innovation in these key industries is not just a matter of academic
debate; the issue has real implications for the growth of the
economy. Despite the stakes - or perhaps because of them - the
academic community has reached little consensus on how to spur
innovation in these fields without inhibiting follow-on research or
denying the public access to the fruits of technological change.
Some argue that strong intellectual property rights in these
industries create a "patent thicket" that only the most seasoned
industry veterans can navigate, and even then at great cost. Others
point to the dearth of evidence that patent thickets actually
exist. They make for nice theory, but where is the proof? In this
volume, leading intellectual property scholars tackle these issues.
The authors express their views on how the current system is faring
in the "information age" and how it might be improved. The analysis
focuses on the software and biotechnology sectors and covers both
legal and economic points of view. These chapters make no pretense
of resolving the age-old debate; given the history of the American
strand of the intellectual property rights dispute, which dates
back to the seventeenth century, no definitive end is in sight. But
this volume does offer valuable insights into intellectual property
protection rules in an information economy and provides an
important perspective on how to solve some of the more pressing
issues.
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