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Science 25 September 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5948, p. 1625
DOI: 10.1126/science.1176066
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Patent Law:

One Size Fits All, After Tailoring

Rebecca S. Eisenberg

The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It by Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2009. 228 pp. $45, £31. ISBN 9780226080611.

Claiming that serious problems arise from current U.S. patent law applying the same set of rules across all industries, Burk and Lemley argue for giving the courts the power to interpret and apply the law so as to treat different types of businesses differently.

The reviewer is at the University of Michigan School of Law, 408 Hutchins Hall, 625 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1215, USA.

E-mail: rse{at}umich.edu

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