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Social and Technological Efficiency of Patent Systems
The paper develops an evolutionary model of
industry dynamics in order to carry out a richer theoretical analysis of the consequences of a stronger patent system. The first results obtained in the paper are rather consistent with the anti-patent
arguments and they do not favour the case for a stronger patent system.
Link
http://beagle.u-bordeaux4.fr/gres/publications/2004/2004-11.pdf