How IP Rights Keep Markets Free

How IP Rights Keep Markets Free, Jonathan M. Barnett Contributor, Forum for Intellectual Property, Hudson Institute June 2021, analyses the counterintuitive IP policy preferences of large technology firms and, in resolving this apparent anomaly, shows that patents tend to enhance competitive intensity by enabling idea-rich but capital-poor innovators to challenge idea-poor but capital-rich incumbents.

Republished with permission from Hudson Institute

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