Intellectual Property

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.

Comment: Intellectual Property Isolationism and the Average Cost Thesis

This paper compares copyright and patents to other kinds of property.

Technical Critique of Fifty Software Patents, A

This paper examines the quality of software patents.

Software and Law: Is Regulation Fostering or Inhibiting Innovation?

This panel of observers asks whether software patents hurt or help the economy.

Patent Portfolios

This paper looks at why large firms hold so many low-value patents.

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.

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.

Antitrust for Patent Pools: A Century of Policy Evolution

This paper looks at regulation of patents to protect competition.

Patent Oppositions

This article asks whether adding a process for objecting to the grant of a patent would benefit the United States.

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.