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Author
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Year
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Defining Software Patents: A Research Field Guide
This paper looks at four key methods of defining what a software patent is empirically and assesses the pros and cons.
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Anne Layne-Farrar |
2005 |
Comment: Intellectual Property Isolationism and the Average Cost Thesis
This paper compares copyright and patents to other kinds of property.
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John Duffy |
2005 |
Technical Critique of Fifty Software Patents, A
This paper examines the quality of software patents.
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Martin Campbell-Kelly, Patrick Valduriez |
2005 |
Software and Law: Is Regulation Fostering or Inhibiting Innovation?
This panel of observers asks whether software patents hurt or help the economy.
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2005 |
Patent Portfolios
This paper looks at why large firms hold so many low-value patents.
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R. Polk Wagner, Gideon Parchomovsky |
2005 |
Innovation & Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation & Progress, & What to Do About It
Argues that the U.S. patent system is badly managed, has a negative effect on innovation, and proposes some reforms.
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Josh Lerner, Adam B. Jaffe |
2004 |
Benefits and Costs of an Opposition Process
This article asks whether adding a process for objecting to the grant of a patent would benefit the United States.
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Jonathan Levin |
2004 |
Antitrust for Patent Pools: A Century of Policy Evolution
This paper looks at regulation of patents to protect competition.
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Richard Gilbert |
2004 |
Patent Oppositions
This article asks whether adding a process for objecting to the grant of a patent would benefit the United States.
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Jonathan Levin, Richard Levin |
2004 |
Case for Registering Patents and the Law and Economics of Present Patent-Obtaining Rules, The
This paper asks whether courts or the patent office should decide patents' validity.
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F. Scott Kieff |
2004 |