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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users and respond to their needs. If the open source developer wants to promote her own open source standard and solutions, she may choose liberal license terms such as those of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032055
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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003
Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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The economic properties of software
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008
Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting-point, this article systematically elaborates the central qualities of the commodity which have implications for its production and cost structure, the demand, the...
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The Economic Properties of Software
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting-point, this article   systematically elaborates the central qualities of the commodity which have implications for its production and cost structure, the demand, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051050
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
, copyright to patent protection. Such an analysis is beneficial as it enables an objective comparison of the three scenarios … that the move from no protection to copyright protection increases the maximum growth rate. However, despite assuming … properly functioning patents, the benefits of moving from copyright to patent protection are less clear. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273790
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Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both: Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights
Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Swaminathan, Sushmita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
, copyright to patent protection. Such an analysis is beneficial as it enables an objective comparison of the three scenarios … that the move from no protection to copyright protection increases the maximum growth rate. However, despite assuming … properly functioning patents, the benefits of moving from copyright to patent protection are less clear. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068712
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Creating Powerful Indicators for Innovation Studies with Approximate Matching Algorithms. A test based on PATSTAT and Amadeus databases.
Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2007
The lack of firm-level data on innovative activities has always constrained the development of empirical studies on innovation. More recently, the availability of large datasets on indicators, such as R&D expenditures and patents, has relaxed these constrains and spurred the growth of a new wave...
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VIOLACIÓN A LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL EN AMERICA
Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004
The violation of intellectual property rights (IPR) is a transnational economic and legal problem. This problem could have a solution path when we solve the question: ¿why there is violation of IPR? The main target of this paper is to solve the last question applied to IPR in Latin- America. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126057
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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...
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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...
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