Innovation and Its Discontents by Adam B Jaffe
Argues that the United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. This book tells the story of how changes in patenting - an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation - have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity.
A lucid, entertaining and sobering look at the American patent system-- Hal R. Varian New York Times A disturbing analysis of how the patent system, the heart of the knowledge economy, is rotten. With plenty of examples, the authors explain how America's patent system has become slow and bureaucratic, awarding too many patents for the wrong sorts of things. As a result, it is a threat to this most innovative economy. Economist This book sounds an alarm bell that is hard to ignore since this is a policy area, which is very important for the national interests of the United States. The authors maintain that the present patent system in this country is profoundly flawed. -- Giuseppe Ammendola American Foreign Policy Interests This is a timely and concise book that presents a comprehensive and convincing argument about the not-so-explicit changes in U.S. patent law beginning in 1982, changes that the authors argue have broken a patent system that worked previously. -- Zainub Verjee Leonardo Reviews Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner have given us a wonderfully timely book--and also one that is beautifully executed. If Congress is to reform the system, the public ought to understand its current failings. -- Rochelle Dreyfuss Michigan Law Review
Adam B. Jaffe is Professor of Economics and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. He is the author, with Manuel Trajtenberg, of "Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy". Josh Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. His books include "The Money of Invention".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691117256 |
| ISBN 10 | 069111725X |
| Title | Innovation and Its Discontents |
| Author | Adam B Jaffe |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2004-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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