From: TIIP Editor (Jim Bessen)
To: TIIP Newsletter
Sent: 13/02/03 22:27
Subject: TIIP Newsletter 2003-1
Newsletter
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Issue 2003-1
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CONTENTS:
1. Should governments subsidize Free/Open Source Software?
Justin Johnson reviews a paper by Klaus Schmidt and Monica Schnitzer
that
urges caution regarding subsidies for free/open source software.
2. Does the U.S. Patent Office reject patent applications?
Mickey Davis summarizes a paper by Cecil Quillen and Ogden Webster. They
find that when patent statistics for the U.S. patent office are analyzed
carefully, it appears the the patent office rejects very few
applications.
3. Free/Open Source in the British Industrial Revolution?
Alessandro Nuvolari's paper on "Collective Invention" during the British
Industrial Revolution (summarized by James Bessen) finds that active
sharing
of inventions brought large productivity advances to steam engines in
the
Cornish mines, but only after James Watt's patents expired.
4. Do patents inhibit AIDS treatment in Africa?
Amir Attaran and Lee Gillespie-White published a controversial paper
arguing
that patents are not a major barrier to access to AIDS drugs in Africa.
Kristina Lybecker carefully reviews their argument and finds it wanting.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Conference, "New Challenges to the Patent System" sponsored by the
Institute for Innovation Research at the University of Munich and the
EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) Consortium, 24/25 April
2003. See http://www.dauphine.fr/imri/EPIP/welcome.html.
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