Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution

Carl Shapiro

NBER Working Paper No. 13141
Issued in May 2007

---- Acknowledgments ----

I owe a special debt to Joe Farrell, who has been invaluable in helping me better understand many of the issues addressed here and who generously commented on previous drafts of this paper. I also thank Richard Gilbert, Bronwyn Hall, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern for their valuable comments on an earlier draft. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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