Timothy B. Lee on software patents

Timothy B. Lee is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

He writes a lot of patent articles for Ars Technica, and sometimes opinion pieces for forbes.com.

Lee appears in the film Patent Absurdity.

External links

Lee's blog

From timothyblee.com:

• Nathan Myhrvold’s Evil Genius - about how Intellectual Ventures makes money via patent trolls
• Software Patents from the Bottom-Up - about the literature analogy

Other sites

• The Supreme Court just restricted software patents. Here's what that means., 20 June 2014 (about Alice v. CLS)
• The Supreme Court doesn't understand software, and that's a problem, 19 June 2014 (about Alice v. CLS)
• Will the Supreme Court save us from software patents?, 26 Feb 2014, Washington Post
  • (Related: Changes in company policy over time‎)
• Why Patent Lawyers Are Clueless About the Software Industry, 23 Mar 2012, The Atlantic
• The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents (See also: analogies), Cato Institute
• Intellectual Ventures: A Reductio of the Patent System, 7 May 2008, Tech Liberation

On Forbes

• The Federal Circuit, Not the Supreme Court, Legalized Software Patents, 3 Oct 2012
• Social Distance and the Patent System, 24 June 2012
• The Supreme Court Should Invalidate Software Patents, 28 July 2011

Ars Technica

• How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system, 30 Sep 2012 (See: CAFC)
• ITC: How an obscure bureaucracy makes the world safe for patent trolls, 21 Sep 2012 (See: US ITC)
• Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills, 2 Aug 2012 (See: SHIELD)
• Top patent court struggles to decide when software is patentable, July 2012
• Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable, Aug 2011
• US Patent Office tightens the screws on software patents, December 2009
• Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents, November 2009
• Ctrl-Z: a return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban?, January 2009
• Congress weighs patent specialization for federal judges, January 2009
• Appeals court deals severe blow to business method patents, October 2008
• Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity, July 2008
• Ars Book Review: "Patent Failure", July 2008
• Analysis: appeals court unlikely to fix software patent mess, May 2008
• Closely-watched case may spell trouble for software patents, April 2008
• Analysis: patent reform bill unable to clean up patent mess, March 2008
• Akamai takes another software patent scalp, March 2008
• Amazon one-click patent extended to gift-giving, June 2007
• SCOTUS ducks software patent issue in Microsoft v. AT&T ruling, May 2007
• Analysis: Verizon's VoIP patents drop dime on need for reform, April 2007
• EU patent courts may cause more problems than they fix, April 2007

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Tim Berners Lee on software patents (Similar name, not to be confused with)