This article seeks to explain the similarities between how software patents are treated under U.S. law and under … hypothesize that both systems, in an effort to compete for software companies both seek to make their systems are software …

claims that enforcement of software patents has created a patent"thicket" that limits innovation is rejected. Young firm …The role of intellectual property is examinedand, specifically, patents in the software industry. Especially considered … professionals in the software industry.The interviews elicited information about the motivations, practices, andinstitutional …

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 looks at the relationship between venture capital (VC) funds and patent assertion entity (PAE). These two … types of entities rely heavily on patents most particularly in the software industry. This paper analyzes this relationship …

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

The growing importance of computer-related software patents awarded in the United States and around the world is a … country seek patent protection from another country is of concern to both organizations and researchers. To better understand … the strategic rationale motivating non-US firms to seek software patents in the US, an exploratory multi-case study …

’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally … patented.Open source paradigm — here explored — could resolve the software patentability issue, in addition to represent the …