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Patents, Prospects, and Economic Surplus: A Reply

Edmund W. Kitch

Date

1980

Citation

Edmund W. Kitch, Patents, Prospects, and Economic Surplus: A Reply, 23 Journal of Law & Economics 205–208 (1980).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Edmund W. Kitch

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Intellectual Property

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

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