The Battle over Patents
History and Politics of Innovation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 November 2021
- ISBN 9780197576151
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 159x241x20 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 illustrations 214
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Short description:
The Battle over Patents traces the long and contentious history of patents, examining how they have worked in practice. The essays in this volume, written by leading social scientists, historians, and legal academics, explore the shortcomings of imperfect patent systems and explain why, despite all the debate, historically US-style patent systems still dominate all other methods of encouraging inventive activity.
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An examination of how the patent system works, imperfections and all, to incentivize innovation
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 frequently get the history wrong.
The Battle over Patents gets it right. Bringing together thoroughly researched essays from prominent historians and social scientists, this volume traces the long and contentious history of patents and examines how they have worked in practice. Editors Stephen H. Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux show that patent systems are the result 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. This volume explores these shortcomings and explains why, despite all the debate, historically US-style patent systems still dominate all other methods of encouraging inventive activity.
This new collection of eight essays fills a gap in the scholarship on patent history during the industrial era. The work brings together scholars whose expertise includes law, economics, business, science and technology, political science, and history.... This cohesive published result of their careful collective discussion explores the historical battle over the role that patents play in encouraging innovative activities.... In sum, the essays show the importance of patent law in the modern economic system. Recommended.
Table of Contents:
Preface Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Introduction Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Chapter 1. Patents in the History of the Semiconductor Industry: The Ricardian Hypothesis
Alexander Galetovic
Chapter 2. Do Patents Foster International Technology Transfer? Evidence from Spanish Steelmaking, 1850-1930
Victor Menaldo
Chapter 3. Did James Watt's Patent(s) Really Delay the Industrial Revolution?
Sean Bottomley
Chapter 4. Dousing the Fires of Patent Litigation
Christopher Beauchamp
Chapter 5. Ninth Circuit Nursery: Patent Litigation and Industrial Development on the Pacific Coast, 1891-1925
Steven W. Usselman
Chapter 6. The Great Patent Grab
Jonathan M. Barnett
Chapter 7. The Long History of Software Patenting in the United States
Gerardo Con Diaz
Chapter 8. History Matters: National Innovation Systems and Innovation Policies in Nations
B. Zorina Khan
Index
