The growing complexity of the United States patent system

JR Allison, MA Lemley - BUL rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
A great deal has been written lately on the growing importance of intellectual property rights
to the economy. With this new focus has come increased attention to the patent system. It is …

The Growing Complexity of the United States Patent System

JR Allison, MA Lemley - Boston University Law Review, 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
In this Article, we compare a data set of 1000 US patents issued between 1996 and 1998 to
a similarly random sample of 1000 patents issued twenty years earlier, between 1976 and …