To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …

Free and open source software (FOSS) is a movement continually gathering accolades as a non-market based system of … hybrid approaches to software development and appropriating value from the resulting code. FOSS licensing harnesses the … new software and a new development methodology. Source code availability, an enforced feature of one major type of FOSS …

fulfill the responsibilities they have been assigned in fostering innovation. But I argue here that in their moments of …

find evidence that both strategic patenting and Ramp;D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software … cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on Ramp;D, patenting and market value in the … computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent …

continued viability of many software patents. Indeed, a split quickly emerged in the Federal Circuit. As a result, it was … approaches. Thus, there remains a pressing need to find a common analytical framework for deciding software patent eligibility … making patentable subject matter eligibility determinations. This article applies this approach to software patents …

innovation are both possible. For private firms, we model a variety of possible business models from completely closed to fully … open, and find that opening a platform can increase profits based on network effects exclusively, innovation exclusively …, or both. A firm's ability to control downstream innovation gives it reaon to rationally behave more like a social planner …