Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Licensing and intellectual property

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Renting out rights as the product. The advocacy books and the sceptical economics both belong on the shelf.

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  1. How Star Wars Conquered the UniverseChris Taylor, 2014
  2. Rembrandts in the AtticKevin G. Rivette, David Kline, 1999
  3. Patent FailureJames Bessen, Michael J. Meurer, 2008
Rembrandts in the AtticRembrandts in the Attic
T2 Rembrandts in the Attic
Kevin G. Rivette, David Kline · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Treat patents as financial and strategic assets, not legal defences.

Innovation and Its DiscontentsInnovation and Its Discontents
T2 Innovation and Its Discontents
Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

How 1980s changes turned the US patent system from aid to obstacle for innovation.

Patent FailurePatent Failure
T2 Patent Failure
James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Evidence that patents work poorly as property; the IP-as-asset skeptic case.

Information FeudalismInformation Feudalism
T3 Information Feudalism
Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the TRIPS treaty spread patent and copyright rents worldwide, drugs included.

Burning the ShipsBurning the Ships
T3 Burning the Ships
Marshall Phelps, David Kline · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Microsoft turned patents from lawsuits into a licensing business.

The Invisible EdgeThe Invisible Edge
T3 The Invisible Edge
Mark Blaxill, Ralph Eckardt · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

IP as competitive strategy rather than legal housekeeping.

How Star Wars Conquered the UniverseHow Star Wars Conquered the Universe
T3 How Star Wars Conquered the Universe
Chris Taylor · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Star Wars merchandise came to outgrow the films that created it.

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