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Business Organizations Law

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Do Patents Perform Like Property?, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen Jan 2008

Do Patents Perform Like Property?, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen

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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.