Sunday's New York Times had an article about a study one of my professors, Michael Meurer, did on the economic soundness of companies pursuing patents, surmising that the costs of litigation negated the profits a patent's limited monopoly might afford. He and his colleague James Bessen plan to turn it into a book.
Personal note: I had done a bit of work as an research assistant for Prof. Meurer while he was preparing his data. Really only a very little bit (e.g., without me the study certainly would have turned out just fine...), but enough to know that he was working on this and be happy to see how it all turned out.
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when they turn it into a book, are you going to get mentioned in the 'thank you' section?
Posted by Rick Lax | July 18, 2007 7:53 PM
Posted on July 18, 2007 19:53