University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series
University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series
Patents and Technological Innovation: Issues and Opportunities
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This chapter will be published in ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, VOL. 18: THE INNOVATION PROCESS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, (Gary Libecap ed., Elsevier Science & Technology Books 2007).
Abstract
This book chapter, designed for use in the TI:GERŪ (Technological Innovation Generating Economic Results) program, discusses some of the current issues raised by the use of patents in technology commercialization. After introducing how patent laws operate in the global marketplace the chapter provides an overview of the U.S. patent system, describing aspects of the process by which patents are obtained and enforced. The focus of the chapter then turns to some of the benefits and costs to academia of the impact of the Bayh-Dole Act, which allows universities to capture returns from federally-funded research. The chapter identifies some of the challenges created by the expanding scope of subject matter eligible for patent protection and concludes with a discussion of some of the issues and opportunities associated with the strategic licensing and enforcement of patents that may impact invention and innovation in the academy and beyond.
Subject Area
Public Law and Legal Theory
Recommended Citation
Margo Bagley,
"Patents and Technological Innovation: Issues and Opportunities"
(June 2007).
University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series.
University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series.
Working Paper 65.
http://law.bepress.com/uvalwps/uva_publiclaw/art65
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