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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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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...

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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

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Financial Patenting in Europe

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2003

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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. …

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The Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Examination

Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Using a unique dataset we examine empirically which factors explain output per contributor in open source projects. We find that the output per contributor of open source programmes is much higher when licenses are less restrictive. Further examination suggests that the difference in output per...

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The market value of patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Thoma, Grid; Torrisi, Salvatore - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2006

citations and the number of technical fields covered by the patent is informative for value. Software patents account for a … software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents are applied for merely to build … portfolios rather than for protection of real inventions. We therefore tested for the impact of software patents on the market …

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Proprietary versus public domain licensing of software and research products

Gambardella, Alfonso; Hall, Bronwyn H. - In: The capitalization of knowledge : a triple helix of …, (pp. 167-198). 2010

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