TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter suggests that, while researchers and teachers of university technology transfer often think exclusively in terms of patents and the Bayh-Dole Act, we ought to adopt a more nuanced view of intellectual property rights (IPRs). In the text, I discuss the primary non-patent types of intellectual property (IP) protection, copyright, trademark, and trade secret, and argue that while patents are normally the “default” position when we think about protecting technologies and profiting from them, evidence suggests that patents are among the least important means of capturing value from innovation. Moreover, I suggest that while many consider that IP protections act as substitutes for one another, thinking about IPRs as complements is a more relevant approach to this issue. Adopting this more nuanced view better reflects reality and does a superior job of alerting our audiences to the opportunities available in the technology commercialization process.
VL  - 18
SN  - 978-1-84950-532-1, 978-0-7623-1481-2/1048-4736
DO  - 10.1016/S1048-4736(07)00005-7
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1048-4736(07)00005-7
AU  - Graham Stuart J.H.
ED  - Gary D. Libecap
ED  - Marie C. Thursby
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Chapter 5 Beyond patents: The role of copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets in technology commercialization
T2  - Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results
T3  - Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 149
EP  - 170
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -