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Timothy B. Lee is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.^[1]

Lee appears in the film Patent Absurdity

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• From his blog at timothyblee.com:
  • Nathan Myhrvold’s Evil Genius - about how Intellectual Ventures makes money via patent trolls
  • Software Patents from the Bottom-Up - about the literature analogy
• The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents (See also: analogies)
• Intellectual Ventures: A Reductio of the Patent System
• Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry, 23 Mar 2012, The Atlantic
• Lee's software patents articles on Ars Technica:
  • Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable, Aug 2011
  • US Patent Office tightens the screws on software patents, December 2009
  • Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents, November 2009
  • Ctrl-Z: a return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban?, January 2009
  • Congress weighs patent specialization for federal judges, January 2009
  • Appeals court deals severe blow to business method patents, October 2008
  • Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity, July 2008
  • Ars Book Review: "Patent Failure", July 2008
  • Analysis: appeals court unlikely to fix software patent mess, May 2008
  • Closely-watched case may spell trouble for software patents, April 2008
  • Analysis: patent reform bill unable to clean up patent mess, March 2008
  • Akamai takes another software patent scalp, March 2008
  • Amazon one-click patent extended to gift-giving, June 2007
  • SCOTUS ducks software patent issue in Microsoft v. AT&T ruling, May 2007
  • Analysis: Verizon's VoIP patents drop dime on need for reform, April 2007
  • EU patent courts may cause more problems than they fix, April 2007

[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org

• Tim Berners Lee on software patents (Similar name, not to be confused with)

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