, especially copyright and patent. This expansion has caused overlap to occur between rights, thus allowing for an inefficient … individual right. The overlap between copyright and patent has especially proven to be problematic when applied to computer …

its software patent review process. As for patent thickets, theory suggests they could form in the software industry, but … 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 …