Software patent
The software patent experiment.
... U.S. Patent and Trademark Office applied for during the years 1994-97 and matched to a firm in the Compustat data ...relative patent propensity (for software patents) estimated in the statistical ...
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Dissecting the software patent problem : an argument against patentability based on the relationship between software and mathematics
... the software patent ...why software should not be ...that software has been regularly mischaracterised, and its context ignored, so as to avoid diffi- cult ontological questions as to the ...
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Alapatt Redux: Support for Functional Language in Software Patent Claims
... Alapatt Redux Support for Functional Language in Software Patent Claims SMU Law Review Volume 66 | Issue 3 Article 1 2013 Alapatt Redux Support for Functional Language in Software Patent Claims Andrew[.] ...
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Avoiding the software patent problem: an alernative fix for TRIPS junkies
... improving patent quality by improving the patent examination ...of patent examiners. Given the ever-increasing presence of software in daily life and its accompanying growth in complexity, one ...
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What is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts?: Evidence from Lotus v. Borland
... Comparisons between the interface definition used in our analysis and alternative definitions. W e looked at the subset of publicly traded software firms around the time of the three judicial decisions in the ...
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Software Patent Protection: A Problem-Solution Theory for Harmonizing the Precedent, 12 Computer L.J. 25 (1993)
... whole, the claim must define a specific implementation on an invention in terms of either structural relationships or process steps in order for the claimed invention [r] ...
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The Supreme Court's Tightening Of Patent Definiteness & The Impact Of Nautilus v. Biosig On The Software Patent Industry
... Since the early 2000s, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions aimed at reining in what it has viewed as patent system excesses, specifically addressing t[r] ...
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A Software Patent War: The Effects of Patent Trolls on Startup Companies, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
... Continuous research has shown that some startup companies opt out of patenting products due to the belief that their technology is not patentable; meanwhile, patent monetize[r] ...
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Software Patent and its Impact on Software Innovation in Japan
... Granting patent rights for software began in the United ...computer software is patentable per se by using the same non-obviousness and inventive step ...States Patent and Trademark Office ...
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Patent Pacifism
... This Section claims that asserting an average software patent will typically result in high search, negotiation, litigation, validity, and reputational costs, and that[r] ...
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Impact of Global Patent and Regulatory Reform on Patent Strategies for Biotechnology
... and diagnostics fueling the development of innovative products including genetically engineered forms of substances like insulin, human growth hormone and therapies like Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis and Gleevec, a ...
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Reinforcing the patent system? Patent fencing, knowledge diffusion and welfare
... stronger patent system favorable to technical progress? The Figures 7(a-b) give the distributions of the average and maximal productivities and they clearly show that the technical progress is the strongest in the ...
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The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court: Potential Changes and Implicaitons
... EU Patent Package does come into force, there will be significant changes to the European patent ...European patent protection in the future, it will be important to know the impact of the new ...
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Patent Retrieval Method Based on Similarity Calculation of a Single Patent
... of patent text, there are some common words that are not stop words, but have no effect to patent retrieval method, such as “comprise”, “invent” and “device” ...
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Optimal Patent Breadth: Quantifying the Effects of Increasing Patent Breadth
... of patent in the variety-expanding model originating from Romer (1990) and find substantial welfare gains despite the temporary consumption losses during the transition path in their ...the patent length is ...
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Private Agreements for Coordinating Patent Rights: The Case of Patent Pools
... At the other end of the spectrum, both rules also appear to favour patent pools with valid patents (i.e., θ is close to 1). 27 To the extent that validity is correlated with “patent strength” 28 , this ...
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“To patent or not to patent? the case of Novartis’ cancer drug Glivec in India”
... Given its capacity to produce large quantities of drugs at cheap, affordable prices, India is known to many as the “Pharmacy of the Developing World” as it has become a leading supplier of generic medicines to many ...
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Removing The Troll From The Thicket: The Case For Enhancing Patent Maintenance Fees In Relation To The Size of A Patent Owner’s Patent Portfolio
... a patent owner that has granted an exclusive license giving all substantial patent rights to the licensee have that patent counted in its patent portfolio for purposes of calculating ...
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Patent landscape of neglected tropical diseases: an analysis of worldwide patent families
... of patent families of NTDs with a slight decrease after ...granted patent families, a stag- nation can be observed after 2008, not a ...but patent application increase on NTDs has not yet reached ...
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The Specialized Vocabulary of Modern Patent Language: Semantic Associations in Patent Lexis
... 212 patent technical words are considered to be statistically unusually frequent in their occurrence, but it was then noted that they seemed to fall into a limited number of recurring topic sets; six sections were ...
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