Mundhenke, Jens - In: Die Weltwirtschaft : Vierteljahresschrift des Instituts … (2004) 4, pp. 417-438
This paper analyzes the economic consequences of software patents and evaluates the different versions for the EU … software development, including the open source model, the pros and cons of patenting computer-implemented inventions are … discussed. It is argued that software patents require higher standards compared to traditional fields of issuing patents, since …