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PatentSim Study Revisited: Patent Expertise Equalizes Innovation in Patent and Non-Patent Systems

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By James DeGiulio -- Earlier this month, we reported on a study published last year in the The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, which suggested a commons systems can generate significantly greater amounts of innovation, productivity, and social utility than currently predominating patent systems that combine both patent and open source protection for inventions ("Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts"). The authors of this study, Dr. Andrew W. Torrance (at right), Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law and a Research Associate at the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas, and Dr. Bill Tomlinson...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).