Review of Bruce Abramson’s “The Secret Circuit”
Joshua Spivak posted a nice review of Bruce Abramson’s The Secret Circuit over at the The San Francisco Chronicle.
In “The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court Where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold,” Bruce Abramson, author of “Digital Phoenix,” a study of the information economy’s collapse and revitalization, pulls back the curtain of American legal and economic policy to provide an engaging discussion of the recent developments and debates that have led to the creation of the country’s strong patent system. Focusing on the relatively obscure U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, Abramson provides an excellent discussion of how and why America’s politicians decided to strengthen patent protection, what this new arrangement meant for the American economy and whether further reforms need to be undertaken. Though the end of the book gets a little lost in the minutiae of the circuit court’s non-intellectual property caseload, the overall work is sound, providing a great examination of an important engine for America’s economic growth.
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