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Studies on economics and innovation
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
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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
