The Patent Litigation Landscape: Recent Research and Developments
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چکیده
Innovation serves as an important source of productivity growth. More than one half of the growth in the United States’ productivity between 1948 and 2014 came from innovators and entrepreneurs, who worked to create new products or make improvements to existing products.1 Academic research, such as Geroski (1989) and Romer (1990), has long acknowledged the importance of innovation to economic growth. In order to drive productivity growth, American inventors need the tools and incentives to experiment, innovate, and commercialize their ideas.
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