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 …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …