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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 Rigts in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs Division, National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy., Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patents--United States.
- Patents.
- Patent practice--United States--Evaluation.
- Patent practice.
- Technological innovations--United States--Patents.
- Technological innovations.
- Intellectual property--United States.
- Intellectual property.
- Patents--Economic policy--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 171 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-137).
- ISBN:
- 9786610179831
- 9780309182218
- 0309182212
- 9781280179839
- 128017983X
- 9780309567060
- 0309567068
- OCLC:
- 923269408
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