Machlup, 1958, An economic review of the patent system
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- Fritz Machlup. 1958. An economic review of the patent system. Submitted to the Senate Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights. 90-ish pages with some Senate front matter, an introduction, and a lengthy bibliography.
Machlup's work on patents was thought to be masterful and definitive. I think this is his most-cited work on patents.
He was an economics professor at John Hopkins, and had been the Chief of Research and Statistics for the Office of Alien Property during WWII, 1943-46, which included U.S. management of foreign-owned patents during the war. The issues then were presumably analogous to those of foreign-owned patents in WWI.
A central cited conclusion is that the evidence does not make clear whether it is better economically to have a patent system or not to have one.
| Original title | An economic review of the patent system |
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| Simple title | An economic review of the patent system |
| Authors | Fritz Machlup |
| Date | 1958 |
| Countries | US |
| Languages | en |
| Keywords | patent institutions, economic of patents, Office of Alien Property |
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| Related to aircraft? | 0 |
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