financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A … number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decisions themselves …. This paper reviews the history of business method and financial patents briefly and then explores what economists know …

financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A … number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decisions themselves …. This paper reviews the history of business method and financial patents briefly and then explores what economists know …

decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … business method and internet patents briefly and then explores what economists know about the relationship between the patent …The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street …

La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger …

, brand value, data, and software. Often, innova-tion activities resulted in in-house developed software-based internet … platforms aimed at disrupting existing business models. A software-based internet platform consists of intellectual property in …. Transferring usage rights on a software-based internet platform between businesses requires a license agreement once a decision on …

In the long history of monopolies, business method patents are a novel and recent edition. In the Digital Age, where … method patents in Australia in light of the 2006 decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Grant v Commissioner of … Patents,5 which confirmed the need in Australia for a 'useful product' to issue from the working of a method (business or …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …