This chapter describes an emergent jurisprudence and a residual economics that converge to support the reconceptualization of U.S. patent policy as a competition regime. Its approach is inspired by an opinion that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court some twenty years...

Although there are several variants of innovation economics at play in the current antitrust literature, the federal judiciary and enforcement agencies as well as a number of Chicago Schoolers have recognized the importance of policy they all associate with the economist Joseph Schumpeter,...

Google started its Google Books project in 2004 with the intent to create a digital library of the world’s books.1 There has not been such a grand plan since students of Aristotle began to gather the world’s knowledge in the Library of Alexandria some 24 centuries ago. The world’s...

This fascinating and highly relevant book facilitates discussion on the difficult technical, legal and economic issues with respect to innovation, competition and welfare raised, through the span of more than a decade, by the US and EC Microsoft antitrust cases. It assesses their impact on the...

In this book Peritz analyzes how free competition has signified both freedom from oppressive government and freedom from private economic power. Peritz shows how these two complex yet distinct and sometimes contradictory images have influenced government policy and continue to inspire public...