How to fix the US patent system

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How to fix the US patent system

Decreasing patent quality and the high risk and cost of patent litigation are threatening US innovation. Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner, authors of Innovation and Its Discontents, present reform proposals that they argue can fix the system

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