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Blocking innovation and research

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Software patents stiffle innovation.

Not only does software innovation happens without patents, but it actually happens better without patents.

Studies

An Empirical Look at Software Patents "...We find evidence that software patents substitute for R&D at the firm level; they are associated with lower R&D intensity..."
The EuroLinux petition - 400,000 signatures against the harm of software patents to innovation and competition

External links

How Patent Trolls Are A Tax On Innovation, by venture capitalist Fred Wilson

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