States News Service, September 22, 2010
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“On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope” was a breakthrough piece of scholarship that has helped shape the debate over the patent law’s influence on technological innovation. The article concluded that patent law should strive to preserve competition for technological improvements, even at the expense of eroding incentives for pioneer firms to some extent…. In one of the conference’s anticipated highlights, Merges will present his own reflections on the article he co-wrote in 1990, along with thoughts on how today’s patent system is shaping technological advancement.