en.swpat.org is a wiki. You can edit it. It may contain statements End Software Patents does not endorse.
May 2013: US Appeals court hands down important anti-swpat ruling!
Sitemap • Countries • Why abolish software patents? • Studies • Case law • Patent office case law • Lawsuits
Cost barrier to market entry
From en.swpat.org
- (For how patents are used as a barrier to protect a specific company or domain, see Blocks competing software, reducing choice)
Software patents prevent competition and entrench monopolies, thus hurting consumers and preventing the proper functioning of the software market.
[edit] Supporting evidence
- Network competition through regulation
- The EuroLinux petition - 435,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to competition and innovation
[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org
- Cost of getting patents
- Costs are astronomically disproportionate for SMEs and individuals
- Software distributors paying Microsoft patent tax
- Blocks competing software, reducing choice
- Used for sabotage rather than competition
- Costs
[edit] External links
- Akamai attacks Limelight as well as other competitors
- Japan's 2nd most used word processor taken off the market in 2005:
- TechDirt: Help Function Patent In Japan Means All Copies Of Word Processor Get Destroyed, Feb 2005
- ComputerWorld: Tokyo court orders popular word processor off market, Feb 2005
|
This wiki is part of the End Software Patents (ESP) campaign (donate). For more information, see: |
