Patent intermediaries: Between the technology market and the intellectual property market

Abstract

1. IntroductionIn this book, Benassi and Martin-Sanchez offer an original and thorough analysis of the role of patent intermediaries in the genesis, maintenance and development of a market for patents. These patent intermediaries would be in the process of re-emerging after a first phase of appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century, following the separation between inventors and the owners of industrial property titles (Lamoreaux and Sokoloff, 2002). This market for technology would..