Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2008
Language
en-US
Abstract
Do patents provide critical incentives to encourage investment in innovation? Or, instead, do patents impose legal risks and burdens on innovators that discourage innovation, as some critics now claim? This paper reviews empirical economic evidence on how well patents perform as a property system.
Recommended Citation
Michael J. Meurer & James Bessen,
Do Patents Perform Like Property?
(2008).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1393
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