of software development violates the assumptions of patent law, which generally requires that electromechanical … inventions be conceived, described, and claimed in terms of their physical structure. Patent law should allow software to be … conceived, described, and claimed in terms of its logical structure to produce a better fit between patent law and software …

International comparisons of patent systems are essential to harmonization treaties and to analyze economic growth. Yet … economic strength and quality of patent systems by using renewal analysis of matched patents in different countries (same … patent family). Comparing patents on the same inventions filed at the EPO for Germany and in the US, we find that the German …

Australian patent law contains no express code for ascertaining ownership of employee inventions, other than to vest … inventions generally was raised by the Industrial Property Advisory Committee in its review of the patent system in 1984. The …

). European software firms are largely content with the middling level of patent protection currently available in their home … region; they show a fairly uniform resistance to the stronger patent protection offered for software in the U.S. This Review … Innovation by Zorina Khan, and Knut Blind, et al., Software Patents. The Khan book argues that a wise intellectual property …

look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when …