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==Source==
==Source==
* Lucas S. Osborn, Joshua Pearce, Amberlee Haselhuhn. The Case for Weaker Patents. ''St. John’s Law Review''. To be published, 2016. [https://www.academia.edu/11677580/The_Case_for_Weaker_Patents Open access preprint]
* Lucas S. Osborn, Joshua Pearce, Amberlee Haselhuhn. [http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6736&context=lawreview A Case for Weakening Patent Rights]. ''St. John’s Law Review''. '''89'''(4), pp.1185-1253 (2015). [https://www.academia.edu/11677580/The_Case_for_Weaker_Patents Open access preprint]
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==Abstract==
This Article provocatively asserts that lawmakers should weaken patents significantly—by between 25% and 50%. The primary impetus for this conclusion is the under-appreciated effects of new and emerging technologies, including three-dimensional printing, synthetic biology, and cloud computing. These and other technologies are rapidly decreasing the costs of each stage of the innovation cycle: from basic research, through inventing and prototyping, to marketing and distribution. The primary economic theories supporting patent law hold that inventors and innovators need patents to recoup the costs associated with research, inventing, and commercializing. Because new technologies have begun—and will continue—to dramatically decrease these costs, the case for weakening patents is ripe for analysis.


This Article provocatively asserts that lawmakers should weaken patents significantly—by between 25% and 50%. The primary impetus for this conclusion is the under-appreciated effects of new and emerging technologies, including three-dimensional printing, synthetic biology, and cloud computing. These and other technologies are rapidly decreasing the costs of each stage of the innovation cycle: from basic research, through inventing and prototyping, to marketing and distribution. The primary economic theories supporting patent law hold that inventors and innovators need patents to recoup the costs associated with research, inventing, and commercializing. Because new technologies have begun—and will continue—to dramatically decrease these costs, the case for weakening patents is ripe for analysis.
==See Also==
* [[Open Source Database and Website to Provide Free and Open Access to Inactive U.S. Patents in the Public Domain]]
 
==News==
* [http://techrights.org/2016/10/31/weakening-patent-rights/ The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights] Tech Rights
* [http://techrights.org/2016/12/06/creating-patent-demand/ Lobbying Disguised as ‘Reporting’ by the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants More Patents and More Lawsuits (Lawyers Needed)]-Tech Rights


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This Article provocatively asserts that lawmakers should weaken patents significantly—by between 25% and 50%. The primary impetus for this conclusion is the under-appreciated effects of new and emerging technologies, including three-dimensional printing, synthetic biology, and cloud computing. These and other technologies are rapidly decreasing the costs of each stage of the innovation cycle: from basic research, through inventing and prototyping, to marketing and distribution. The primary economic theories supporting patent law hold that inventors and innovators need patents to recoup the costs associated with research, inventing, and commercializing. Because new technologies have begun—and will continue—to dramatically decrease these costs, the case for weakening patents is ripe for analysis.

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