around the world: antitrust/competition law and patent law. (A subsequent volume will focus on international trade, copyright … Standards Development Gil Ohana and Brad Biddle; Part V. FRAND Litigation around the World; 16. U.S. Antitrust Aspects of FRAND …

its practice of granting patents on software matters. Therefore, a large number of questions are still pending. This … article asks in a general manner and without any prepossession to what extent software can be patented in the actual state of …

software. A theoretical solution to this overlap is the exclusion of copyright protection to computer software, due to its …

types of entities rely heavily on patents most particularly in the software industry. This paper analyzes this relationship …

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …