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04037aam a2200421 i 4500 001 24E7C34A78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 210505s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021021172 020 $a 0197576168 020 $a 9780197576168 020 $a 019757615X 020 $a 9780197576151 035 $a (OCoLC)1256590867 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d PAU $d VTU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a T333 $b .B38 2021 245 04 $a The battle over patents : $b history and politics of innovation / $c edited by Stephen H. Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a ix, 374 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 typically get the history wrong. The purpose of this book is to get the history right by showing that patent systems are the product 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; nirvana is not on the menu. The most interesting intellectual issue is not how patent systems are imperfect, but why historically US-style patent systems have come to dominate all other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The answer offered by the essays in this volume is that they create a temporary property right that can be traded in a market, thereby facilitating a productive division of labor and making it possible for firms to transfer technological knowledge to one another by overcoming the free-rider problem. Precisely because the value of a patent does not inhere in the award itself but rather in the market value of the resulting property right, patent systems foster a decentralized ecology of inventors and firms that ceaselessly extends the frontiers of what is economically possible"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g 8. $t History Matters: National Innovation Systems and Innovation Policies in Nations / $r B. Zorina Khan. $g 2. $t Do Patents Foster International Technology Transfer? Evidence from Spanish Steelmaking, 1850 -- 1930 / $r Victor Menaldo -- $g 3. $t Did James Watt's Patent(s) Really Delay the Industrial Revolution? / $r Sean Bottomley -- $g 4. $t Dousing the Fires of Patent Litigation / $r Christopher Beauchamp -- $g 5. $t Ninth Circuit Nursery: Patent Litigation and Industrial Development on the Pacific Coast, 1891 -- 1925 / $r Steven W. Usselman -- $g 6. $t The Great Patent Grab / $r Jonathan M. Burnett -- $g 7. $t The Long History of Software Patenting in the United States / $r Gerardo Con Diaz -- $g 8. $t History Matters: National Innovation Systems and Innovation Policies in Nations / $r B. Zorina Khan. 650 0 $a Patents $x History. 650 0 $a Patents $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Intellectual property $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Patent laws and legislation. 650 7 $a Patent laws and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01054823 650 7 $a Patents. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01054862 650 7 $a Patents $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01054870 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Haber, Stephen H., $d 1957- $e editor. 700 1 $a Lamoreaux, Naomi R., $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Battle over patents $d New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2021 $z 9780197576182 $w (DLC) 2021021173 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230517010753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=24E7C34A78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search