source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the …This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

’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 …

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 … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers through policies that would remove the ability of patent holders to seek … the claims of exclusion by FRAND (and patent royalties in particular) are exaggerated, but that there are documented …

Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. In contrast, we argue how intellectual … between developers, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however … be seen as a threat for the development and deployment of open source software. We present the nature of the threat and …