On intellectual property rights: Patents versus free and open development.

The Elgar Companion to the Economics of Property Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 383-413

  Isaac, Alan G ^a   Park, Walter G ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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