Stephen H. Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities and Sciences and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In addition, he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy), and asenior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, and published numerous articles on business, economic, and financial history.

This new collection of eight essays fills a gap in the scholarship on patent history during the industrial era. The work brings together scholars whose expertise includes law, economics, business, science and technology, political science, and history.... This cohesive published result of their careful collective discussion explores the historical battle over the role that patents play in encouraging innovative activities.... In sum, the essays show the importance of patent law in the modern economic system. Recommended.

• Preface Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux Introduction Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux Chapter 1. Patents in the History of the Semiconductor Industry: The Ricardian HypothesisAlexander Galetovic Chapter 2. Do Patents Foster International Technology Transfer? Evidence from Spanish Steelmaking, 1850-1930 Victor Menaldo Chapter 3. Did James Watt's Patent(s) Really Delay the Industrial Revolution?Sean Bottomley Chapter 4. Dousing the Fires of Patent LitigationChristopher Beauchamp Chapter 5. Ninth Circuit Nursery: Patent Litigation and Industrial Development on the Pacific Coast, 1891-1925Steven W. Usselman Chapter 6. The Great Patent GrabJonathan M. Barnett Chapter 7. The Long History of Software Patenting in the United StatesGerardo Con Diaz Chapter 8. History Matters: National Innovation Systems and Innovation Policies in NationsB. Zorina Khan Index

Stephen H. Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities and Sciences and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In addition, he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy), and asenior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, and published numerous articles on business, economic, and financial history.

This new collection of eight essays fills a gap in the scholarship on patent history during the industrial era. The work brings together scholars whose expertise includes law, economics, business, science and technology, political science, and history.... This cohesive published result of their careful collective discussion explores the historical battle over the role that patents play in encouraging innovative activities.... In sum, the essays show the importance of patent law in the modern economic system. Recommended.

• Preface Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux Introduction Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux Chapter 1. Patents in the History of the Semiconductor Industry: The Ricardian HypothesisAlexander Galetovic Chapter 2. Do Patents Foster International Technology Transfer? Evidence from Spanish Steelmaking, 1850-1930 Victor Menaldo Chapter 3. Did James Watt's Patent(s) Really Delay the Industrial Revolution?Sean Bottomley Chapter 4. Dousing the Fires of Patent LitigationChristopher Beauchamp Chapter 5. Ninth Circuit Nursery: Patent Litigation and Industrial Development on the Pacific Coast, 1891-1925Steven W. Usselman Chapter 6. The Great Patent GrabJonathan M. Barnett Chapter 7. The Long History of Software Patenting in the United StatesGerardo Con Diaz Chapter 8. History Matters: National Innovation Systems and Innovation Policies in NationsB. Zorina Khan Index

Stephen H. Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities and Sciences and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In addition, he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy), and asenior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, and published numerous articles on business, economic, and financial history.

This new collection of eight essays fills a gap in the scholarship on patent history during the industrial era. The work brings together scholars whose expertise includes law, economics, business, science and technology, political science, and history.... This cohesive published result of their careful collective discussion explores the historical battle over the role that patents play in encouraging innovative activities.... In sum, the essays show the importance of patent law in the modern economic system. Recommended.

• Preface Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux Introduction Stephen Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux Chapter 1. Patents in the History of the Semiconductor Industry: The Ricardian HypothesisAlexander Galetovic Chapter 2. Do Patents Foster International Technology Transfer? Evidence from Spanish Steelmaking, 1850-1930 Victor Menaldo Chapter 3. Did James Watt's Patent(s) Really Delay the Industrial Revolution?Sean Bottomley Chapter 4. Dousing the Fires of Patent LitigationChristopher Beauchamp Chapter 5. Ninth Circuit Nursery: Patent Litigation and Industrial Development on the Pacific Coast, 1891-1925Steven W. Usselman Chapter 6. The Great Patent GrabJonathan M. Barnett Chapter 7. The Long History of Software Patenting in the United StatesGerardo Con Diaz Chapter 8. History Matters: National Innovation Systems and Innovation Policies in NationsB. Zorina Khan Index