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Blocking competing software
Software patents prevent multiple teams from innovating in the same field. So instead of ten word processors, you'll only have two.
Higher prices
The cost of all these patents has to be paid by someone, often the users.
See also
- Preventing competition - lowering quality, raising prices
External links
- No Education Patents, archive.org copy
- BBC article about BlackBoard's patents, 2006
- Tokyo court orders popular word processor off market, 2005, the main competitor to Microsoft Word in Japan is removed from the market due to patents owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial, aka Panasonic.
