Hall, Bronwyn H.; Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and … Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant … changes in payment and financial systems. Scholars have argued that financial patents, like other business methods patents …