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Deepak Somaya & David J. Teece 2000-11-30: Combining Inventions in Multi-invention Products: Organizational Choices, Patents, and Public Policy

Detailed study of the transfer costs generated by the patent system under various conditions, written by Deepak Somaya, economist at the University of Maryland, and David Teece, senior colleague at Univ of California in Berkely. The study estimates the (very high) transfer costs that are caused by patents in complex systems and examines various strategies for reducing these costs at the micro- and macro-economic (public policy) level.

title:: Deepak Somaya & David J. Teece 2000-11-30: Combining Inventions in Multi-invention Products: Organizational Choices, Patents, and Public Policy
source:: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/lbpp/dsomaya/Papers/DSDT00.pdf

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Bessen & Maskin 2000: Sequential Innovation: This article is written by two researcher from MIT and concludes, after giving mathematical models and experimental evidence, that in a dynamic world such as the software industry or consulting industry, firms may have plenty of incentive to innovate without patents and patents may constrict complementary innovation. It concludes that copyright protection for software programs (which has gone through its own evolution over the last decade) may have achieved a better balance than patent protection. This new model suggests another, different rationale for narrow patent breadth than the recent economic literature on this subject.

[ Bessen & Maskin 2000: Sequential Innovation | Deepak Somaya & David J. Teece 2000-11-30: Combining Inventions in Multi-invention Products: Organizational Choices, Patents, and Public Policy | Waterson & Ireland: An Auction Model of Intellectual Property Protection: Patent vs Copyright | Bronwyn H. Hall & Rose Marie Ham: The Patent Paradox Revisited | Kortum & Lerner 1998: What is behind the recent surge in patenting ]

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