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A patent system for the 21st century / Stephen A. Merrill, Richard C. Levin, and Mark B. Myers, editors ; Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs Division.

Title
A patent system for the 21st century / Stephen A. Merrill, Richard C. Levin, and Mark B. Myers, editors ; Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs Division.
Author
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Merrill, Stephen A.
  • Levin, Richard C.
  • Myers, Mark B.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy.
Description
xiv, 171 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates.A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.
Alternative Title
Patent system for the twenty-first century
Subject
  • Technology > standards
  • Patents as Topic > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Diffusion of Innovation
  • Patents as Topic
  • Patents > United States
  • Patent practice > United States > Evaluation
  • Technological innovations > United States > Patents
  • Intellectual property > United States
  • Patents > United States > Economic policy
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • patents.
  • Patents
  • Brevets d'invention.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-137).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Six reasons to pay attention to the patent system -- Seven criteria for evaluating the patent system -- Seven recommendations for a 21st-century patent system.
ISBN
0309089107
LCCN
^^2004110887
OCLC
  • 56471958
  • SCSB-10297706
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library