Books about software and patents

Several books have been published specifically about the topic of software patents. Other books have sections about the topic.

Specifically on software patents

Books

• Patent Law for Computer Scientists, Steps to Protect Computer-implemented Inventions -- by four EPO examiners, 2010
• Software and Patents in Europe -- by Philip Leith, 2007
• No Lobbyists As Such -- by Florian Müller, 2006 (about the EU software patents directive)
• Math You Can't Use -- by Ben Klemens, 2005 (about the USA)
• The Karmarkar Patent and Software - Is Math Patentable? -- by KONNO Hiroshi, 1995 (about Japan)

Papers

• The Rise of the Information Processing Patent,[1] by Ben Klemens
• On the Grammar of Patent Claims,[2] by Georg Jakob and Hartmut Pilch

On the patent system or innovation

Books

• Don't File a Patent, by John Smith, 2011
• Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk, by James Bessen and Michael Meurer, 2009
• Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, 2008
• Patent Failure, by James Bessen and Michael Meurer, Princeton University Press, 2008
• The Patent Wars: The Battle to Own the World's Technology, by Fred Warshofsky
• Democratizing Innovation, by Eric Von Hippel, 2005
• Information Feudalism, by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite
• Legal Protection of Digital Information, by Lee A. Hollaar (Professor at Utah, USA) Chapter 5 is about software patents

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• List of recordings and transcripts
• Studies on economics and innovation

External links

• http://eupat.ffii.org/archive/mirror/impact/index.en.html