Software patents should be abolished

Software patents should be abolished

James Bessen, from an organization called Research on Innovation, and Eric Maskin, a Harvard and MIT economics professor, have written a paper called "Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation." In this paper, Bessen and Maskin look at the various rationales and conventional wisdom for...

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Veröffentlicht in:Game Developer 2001-05, Vol.8 (5), p.64
Hauptverfasser: Hecker, Chris, Muratori, Casey
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Computer & video games
Ethics
Inventors
Lobbying
Problems
R&D
Research & development
Research & development expenditures
Software
Software industry
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Zusammenfassung:James Bessen, from an organization called Research on Innovation, and Eric Maskin, a Harvard and MIT economics professor, have written a paper called "Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation." In this paper, Bessen and Maskin look at the various rationales and conventional wisdom for patents, and build economic models for these theories. They then compare the theories and models with data from the computer industry.
ISSN:1073-922X