Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

Preface ix Chapter 1: The Argument in Brief 1 Chapter 2: Why Property Rights Work, How Property Rights Fail 29 Chapter 3: If You Can't Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain't Property 46 Chapter 4: Survey of Empirical Research: Do Patents Perform Like Property? 73 Chapter 5: What Are U.S. Patents Worth to Their Owners? 95 Chapter 6: The Cost of Disputes 120 Chapter 7: How Important Is the Failure of Patent Notice? 147 Chapter 8: Small Inventors 165 Chapter 9: Abstract Patents and Software 187 Chapter 10: Making Patents Work as Property 215 Chapter 11: Reforms to Improve Notice 235 Chapter 12: A Glance Forward 254 Notes 261 References 295 Index 315