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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010
Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615252
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Financial Patenting in Europe
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615254
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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2003
The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843467
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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712047
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Financial Patenting in Europe
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712119
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Piracy in a two-sided software market
Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013
This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956790
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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2003
The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010537990
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The impact of piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers
Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software …. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082721
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Piracy in a two-sided software market
Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2013
This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311632
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Internet Security, Vulnerability Disclosure and Software Provision
Choi, Jay-Pil; Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In this paper, we examine how software vulnerabilities affect firms that license software and consumers that purchase … software. In particular, we model three decisions of the firm: (i) an upfront investment in the quality of the software to … software. We also model two decisions of the consumer: (i) whether to purchase the software; and (ii) whether to apply a patch. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792060