The software industry is changing as a result of the rising influence both of packaged and of Free/Libre/Open Source … Software (FLOSS), but the change trajectory of the industry is still not well understood. This article aims to contribute to … clarifying software industry evolution through a longitudinal study, using Industry Change Trajectory Theory to explain and …

This paper has the objective of measuring the market power of Microsoft in the software industry. We develop a two tier …

The software industry is changing as a result of the rising influence both of packaged and of Free/Libre/Open Source … Software (FLOSS), but the change trajectory of the industry is still not well understood. This article aims to contribute to … clarifying software industry evolution through a longitudinal study, using Industry Change Trajectory Theory to explain and …

strengthening, more particularly in software and business methods areas because these informational goods could be viewed as generic …

: Free/libre or open-source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in … that, beside factors like the importance of software as a core competence of the firm, the role of users on the related … empirical stylized facts drawn from the recent trends in the software industry …

-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … whereas small innovations are always patented. Furthermore, medium innovations are patented only when patent strength is … sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …

inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. By contrast, we argue how IP law is at …, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for … the development and deployment of open source software. We present the nature of the threat and review a series of …

model in which manufacturers must buy licenses from different patent owners in order to enter the market for differentiated …