The problems with software patents are old and well-known. However it’s not for a lack of trying that they have … persisted. Software and tech companies have been pushing Congress to fix things for years. Each time they do, however … better for tech companies would make them worse for others.Viewed this way, the problem isn’t software patents. It’s our …

Innovation by Zorina Khan, and Knut Blind, et al., Software Patents. The Khan book argues that a wise intellectual property … deals with contemporary European policy toward software patents, and aptly describes the prevailing European preference for … software companies. These companies' experiences with and attitudes toward patents are painstakingly summarized. The picture …

software patents. But each strand of this debate has some limitations. The legal literature is for the most part based on case … numbers of patents, but tends to ignore the technical arguments either for or against software patents. The technical … patents, and thus like the law literature does not shed much light on software patents in general. This paper attempts to fill …

software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation …Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in the software industry than in …. While there is some truth to each of these criticisms, the real problem with software patents lies elsewhere. Software …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …