Edited by Joseph Scott Miller, University of Georgia, US

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroductionJoseph Scott MillerPART IPATENT LAW HISTORY 1. P.J. Federico ([1936] 1990), ‘Operation of the Patent Act of 1790’2. Steven Lubar (1991), ‘The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law’3. Mark D. Janis (2002), ‘Patent Abolitionism’4. Edward C. Walterscheid (2005), ‘The Hotchkiss Unobviousness Standard: Early Judicial Activism in the Patent Law’PART IINONOBVIOUSNESS5. Edmund W. Kitch (1966), ‘Graham v. John Deere Co.: New Standards for Patents’6. John F. Duffy (2008), ‘A Timing Approach to Patentability’PART IIIECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PATENT LAW 7. Robert P. Merges and Richard R. Nelson (1990), ‘On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope’8. Suzanne Scotchmer (1991), ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law’9. Edmund W. Kitch (1977), ‘The Nature and Function of the Patent System’10. John F. Duffy (2004), ‘Rethinking the Prospect Theory of Patents’11. Paul J. Heald (2005), ‘A Transaction Costs Theory of Patent Law’PART IVTHE PATENABILITY OF SOFTWARE OR BUSINESS METHODS12. Donald S. Chisum (1986), ‘The Patentability of Algorithms’13. Allen Newell (1986), ‘Response: The Models Are Broken, The Models Are Broken!’14.Thomas F. Cotter (2007), ‘A Burkean Perspective on Patent Eligibility’PART VEMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF PATENT LAW 15. Bronwyn H. Hall and Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis (2001), ‘The Patent Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Study of Patenting in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1979–1995’16. John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, Kimberly A. Moore and R. Derek Trunkey (2004), ‘Valuable Patents’Name Index

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