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* Rivette & Kline, 1999, which is used to support the claim that "''patents can be used to delay or stifle innovation through the use of patent pools, patent thickets, exclusive licensing, and other abusive patent enforcement tactics''" | * Rivette & Kline, 1999, which is used to support the claim that "''patents can be used to delay or stifle innovation through the use of patent pools, patent thickets, exclusive licensing, and other abusive patent enforcement tactics''" | ||
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| + | ** There may be more studies in the references of the online book [[Against Intellectual Monopoly]], such as those of chapter 3's mention of a year 2000 Carnegie Survey | ||
| + | * [[More than innovation]] - software patents harm innovation, but the problems are also much bigger than just innovation | ||
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Revision as of 10:30, 2 May 2011
Numerous studies have shown that software patents are bad for innovation and national economies. Here's a collection of evidence.
Contents
ESP Wiki articles
Articles generally contain quotes and excerpts.
- 2009 patent litigation study - PriceWaterhouseCoopers, January 2010
- Venturous Australia - 2009
- Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts - Torrance and Tomlinson, 2009
- 2008 State of Software Patents - Klemens, 2008
- 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
- Although not a study, the Aerotel v. Telco ruling of 2006 in the UK contains detailed commentary
- Rethinking the European ICT agenda - PriceWaterhouseCoopers, September 2004
- Innovation in Germany, Windows of opportunity - Deutsche Bank Research, June 2004
- An Empirical Look at Software Patents - Bessen and Hunt, March 2004
- US FTC report on innovation - US Federal Trade Commission, October 2003
- Gowers Review of Intellectual Property - commissioned by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 2006
- Network Competition Through Regulation report - German Monopoly Commission, 2002
All studies
2011
2010
- Costs of the Patent System Revisited, by Stephan Kinsella, which estimates that the whole cost of the patent system in the USA is US$42 billion per year
2009
- Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation. Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric A. Von Hippel. November 25, 2009. Harvard Business School. MIT Sloan School of Management.
2008
- 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
- Debugging Software Patents: Increasing Innovation and Reducing Uncertainty in the Judicial Design of Optimal Software Patent Law, Robert E. Thomas, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration; Business Law & Legal Studies
2004
- Innovation in Germany – Windows of opportunity, Deutsche Bank Research for the German government, 2004.
- An Empirical Look at Software Patents, Bessen & Hunt, 2004.
2003
- (title sought) "Broersma, April 28 & August 28, 2003", which said or is used to support somebody saying: "United States, where such patents are allowed, large corporations such as IBM routinely stockpile patents to be used against competitors--usually to the detriment of smaller companies"
1999
- Rivette & Kline, 1999, which is used to support the claim that "patents can be used to delay or stifle innovation through the use of patent pools, patent thickets, exclusive licensing, and other abusive patent enforcement tactics"
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Books about software and patents
- There may be more studies in the references of the online book Against Intellectual Monopoly, such as those of chapter 3's mention of a year 2000 Carnegie Survey
- More than innovation - software patents harm innovation, but the problems are also much bigger than just innovation
External links
Reports
For each of these, we should make a wiki page, like the above-linked pages, to explain the relevance and to point readers to the most important parts of the documents.
- http://www.researchoninnovation.org/swpat.pdf - economists against swpat
- http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf - Bessen and Maskin, MIT research
- http://www.kuesterlaw.com/swpat.html - a 1995 paper by a USA laywer
- http://www.marsouin.org/IMG/pdf/Jullien-Zimmermann_8-2005.pdf
Other collections of links
FFII pages
- An FFII page of economics studies
- Another FFII collection of economic studies (see directory for LaTeX/bibtex sources)
- A list of studies on the Wiki of the European petition to stop software patents
- Studies and Opinions related to the Software Patent Directive Project
- Studies about software patents taken into account by the EP in first reading, 2003
