Innovation for the 21st Century

• Introduction


• Part I


• Innovation


• Intellectual Property


• Antitrust


• IP-Antitrust Intersection


• Part II


• Better Patents


• Less Dangerous Patents


• Biotechnology Bottlenecks


• Pioneering Peer-to-Peer


• Interoperable DMCA


• Innovation Markets


• Standards Organizations


• Pharmaceutical Settlements


• Conclusion


• Index

Michael Carrier is Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, and property law. His work has recently appeared in the Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review.

"Michael Carrier's Innovation for the 21st Century is sure to be an influential book in the area of intellectual property and competition policy. Carrier does an excellent job of summarizing the problems of IP and proposes workable solutions that come from both competition law and the IP laws themselves. Unlike many of the books and articles that fault the patent system in particular, but offer little in the way of a solution, Carrier asserts strong, creative ideas for reform. He offers ten specific proposals in the areas of antitrust, patents and copyright to make the competition policy/intellectual property system encourage innovation. This book will give law makers, judges, academics, students and all readers interested in innovation and competition policy a great deal to think about." --Herbert Hovenkamp, The University of Iowa College of Law"Michael Carrier's new book is an innovation in itself. Many scholars write about antitrust, or patent, or copyright law, each one an area of specialization. What Carrier does is to combine these three fields to create a fourth-innovation law and policy. To do this, Carrier not only lucidly describes each of these three fields but, drawing on current social science theory, shows how legal doctrines in each of these fields should be interpreted to promote innovation in our economy. His conclusions will be of great interest not only to lawyers trying to solve current legal problems but also to policy makers concerned with providing the correct incentives for innovation." --Harry First, New York University School of Law"Innovation drives our industry, attracts the best talent, and wins fame and fortune for its leaders. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks were created to protect intellectual property and encourage innovation. In this book Professor Michael Carrier elegantly connects innovation to these legal concepts and introduces creative suggestions for improvements. The very laws that were c