{"id":1861,"date":"2007-07-24T03:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/a-patent-is-worth-having-right-well-maybe-not\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:22:34","slug":"a-patent-is-worth-having-right-well-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/a-patent-is-worth-having-right-well-maybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not &#8211; New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/15\/business\/yourmoney\/15proto.html?ex=1185336000&amp;en=d6f663504691a290&amp;ei=5070'>A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Surprised me. I would like to see a public discussion between people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtransfer.umich.edu\/\">U-M&rsquo;s Tech Transfer<\/a> and intellectual property lawyers on this topic. It would be in the best interest of the system. Interesting points for me:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer&rsquo;s book, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/researchoninnovation.org\/dopatentswork\/\">Do Patents Work?<\/a>&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &ldquo;patent litigation costs outstrip patent profits&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &ldquo;companies doing the most research are sued the most&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An open comment process for patent applications: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipatents.com\">Wikipatents<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not &#8211; New York Times Surprised me. I would like to see a public discussion between people at U-M&rsquo;s Tech Transfer and intellectual property lawyers on this topic. It would be in the best interest of the system. Interesting points for me: \u2022 James Bessen and Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[181,165],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-decision-making","tag-patents","tag-umich","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}