citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …

We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United …) firms around the time of important court decisions that impacted software patents, and the second analyzes the relationship … between firms' stock market value, the sector in which they operate, and their holdings of software patents. We conclude that …