The Case Against Patents

The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless productivity is identified with the number of patents awarded-which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity. Both theory and ev...

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Volume:	27
Main Author:	Michele Boldrin David K. Levine
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	NASHVILLE American Economic Association 01.01.2013 AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
published in:	The Journal of economic perspectives Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 3 - 22
Data of publication:	20130101
ISSN:	0895-3309 1944-7965
EISSN:	1944-7965
Discipline:	Economics Law
Subjects:	Productivity Patents Technological innovation Pharmaceutical preparations Economic theory Product innovation Monopoly Political economy Symposium: Patents Empirical evidence Software industry Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Intellectual property law Industrial productivity Laws, regulations and rules Analysis Intellectual property Influence Technological innovations Business enterprises United States COMPETITION INNOVATION ECONOMICS
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