examine the implications of some traditional patent law doctrines for innovation in the software industry. We argue that … interoperable components and products. In particular, we argue for two sorts of new rules in software patent cases. First, we … light of the special nature of innovation within the software industry, courts should apply the doctrine of equivalents …

, 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 … software. A theoretical solution to this overlap is the exclusion of copyright protection to computer software, due to its …

-implemented inventions, the subject remains very controversial, particularly due to the fact that the European Patent Office has maintained … its practice of granting patents on software matters. Therefore, a large number of questions are still pending. This … article asks in a general manner and without any prepossession to what extent software can be patented in the actual state of …

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 …