Stephen H. Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities and Sciences and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In addition, he is a professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics (by courtesy), and a
senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, and published numerous articles on business, economic, and financial history.

Jonathan M. Barnett is Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law, University of Southern California.

Christopher Beauchamp is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

Sean Bottomley is VC Senior Fellow at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.

Gerardo Con Diaz is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Alexander Galetovic is Senior Fellow, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California; and Research Associate, CRIEP (Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario sull'Economia Pubblica), Padua, Italy.

Stephen Haber is A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

B. Zorina Khan is Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Victor Menaldo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Steven W. Usselman is H. Bruce McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at the School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology.

"This new collection of eight essays fills a gap in the scholarship on patent history during the industrial era. The work brings together scholars whose expertise includes law, economics, business, science and technology, political science, and history.... This cohesive published result of their careful collective discussion explores the historical battle over the role that patents play in encouraging innovative activities.... In sum, the essays show the importance of patent law in the modern economic system. Recommended." -- CHOICE

"In a new series of essays, The Battle Over Patents, 10 economists, historians and lawyers make a compelling case that patents remain the best, if imperfect, way of rewarding inventors and disseminating knowledge." -- Financial Times