Optimal patent breadth and patent length for touch-screen handsets
The basic principle of patent law is to provide the innovator a negative right to exclude others from making, using, exercising, offering to dispose of and marketing the invention within a limited statutory period. Two aspects of patent theory have polarised research since the Schumpetian era; namel...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24704 Macheli-Mkhabela, S 2010, Optimal patent breadth and patent length for touch-screen handsets, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24704 > http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05152011-144350/ |