Title: Patents : economics, policy, and measurement /
Authors: Scherer, F. M.
Publisher: Edward Elgar,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Trusts, Industrial Government policy United States.; Patents United States
Abstract: "Patents summarizes four decades of pioneering research by F.M. Scherer on the economics of patent protection. This book is distinguished by concern for the role of patents in a global context and by thorough investigation into the utility of patent counts as instruments for measuring the magnitude and consequences of technological invention. The book also includes a detailed new introduction by F.M. Scherer." "Scholars working on innovation and science, technological change, and law and economics will find this an invaluable and interesting book. It will also appeal to practitioners involved in patent and antitrust matters."--Jacket.
Contents: The economics of the patent system -- Nordhaus' theory of optimal patent life : a geometric interpretation -- Comment on Edmund Kitch -- The economics of human gene patents -- The pharmaceutical industry and world intellectual property standards -- Economic effects of strengthening pharmaceutical patent protection in Italy -- Post-TRIPS options for access to patented medicines in developing nations -- A note on global welfare in pharmaceutical patenting -- Firm size, market structure, opportunity, and the output of patented inventions -- Corporate inventive output, profits, and growth -- Inter-industry technology flows in the United States -- Demand-pull and technological invention : Schmookler revisited -- Technology flows matrix estimation revisited -- The Office of Technology Assessment and forecast industry concordance as a means of identifying industrial technology origins -- Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions -- Citation frequency and the value of patented inventions -- The innovation lottery.