Software patenting in the United States has been a relevant and well regulated phenomenon since the 1980s. On the … that European Patent Convention expressively prohibits software patenting has not been a major problem for firms and … inventors who have patented it as well. First of all, a reliable database of software patents is presented. These patents are …

citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …

citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …

extent of copyright protection for software under the Computer Program Directive 91/250 (now 2009/24) and the Information …