FTC Report - The evolving IP Marketplace

THE EVOLVING IP MARKETPLACE: ALIGNING PATENT NOTICE AND REMEDIES WITH COMPETITION INTRODUCTION

Innovation benefits consumers through the development of new products, processes and services that improve lives and address unmet needs. It is key to meeting society’s greatest challenges in areas as diverse as energy production, communications and health care, and it is essential to sustained economic growth and global competitiveness. But innovation is a complex process. It involves a series of steps from idea to invention through development to commercialization, each of which can be expensive, risky and unpredictable.

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