Do Patents Perform Like Property?
回顾了关于专利作为财产制度表现如何的实证经济证据，探讨专利是激励还是阻碍创新投资。
Executive Overview Do patents provide critical incentives to encourage investment in innovation? Or, instead, do patents impose legal risks and burdens on innovators that discourage innovation, as some critics now claim? This paper reviews empirical economic evidence on how well patents perform as a property system.