Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Software Technologies: The Economics of Monopoly Rights and Knowledge Disclosure

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Economic Rationale of Intellectual Property Rights 3. The Role and Performance of IPRs 4. Revealing Obscure Sources 5. Benefiting from Intellectual Property and Free Disclosure 6. Designed for Innovation: The Structure of IPR Regimes 7. Owning Technology 8. Proposed Framework for Analyzing IPRs 9. Conclusions Appendices A. Proof of Propositions 5 and 6 B. Distribution of Patents Index