internet, the experience of the existing US software patent, and the identification of the interested parties.In 2013 EU …The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should … initiative supporting the EU software patent.The paper's objective is to prove that the patent could become the most effective …

This article analyzes a Federal Circuit decision from 2015, Internet Patents Corp. v. Active Network, Inc., 790 F.3d … providing an intelligent user interface to an online application were patent-ineligible. Internet Patents may indicate that the … possibility of patenting online application software or programming is closed. Reciting a computer or software mechanism in a …

This paper focuses on the protection of software and e-commerce business methods from patent perspective. In particular … and with the aim of comparison, the paper examines national approaches for software and e-commerce business methods patent …

, Rethinking Software Patents. This roundtable is the second in the Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy Roundtable …

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 …

This report examines changes in the patenting behavior of the software industry since the 1990s. It finds that most … software firms still do not patent, most software patents are obtained by a few large firms in the software industry or in … other industries, and the risk of litigation from software patents continues to increase dramatically. Given these findings …

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 …