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Effect of Patents on Innovation
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| We recognize that patents have two effects
| (ignoring "invent around" and "revealing
| secrets" both of which are of at best
| minuscule significance): increasing
| innovation by increasing incentives to
| innovate, and decreasing innovation by making
| it more costly to innovate. This paper gives
| us a pretty clean measure of the latter
| effect: the benefit of being able to access
| existing ideas without negotiation or
| licensing raises innovation by around 20%.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002084
All Hail the Mighty Algorithm
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| As long-suffering readers of this blog will
| know, one of the reasons I regard software
| patents as dangerous is because software
| consists of algorithms, and algorithms are
| simply maths. So allowing software patents is
| essentially allowing patents on pure
| knowledge.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-hail-mighty-algorithm.html
As Going Gets Tough, Nokia Brings Out Legal Guns
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| When Nokia, the worldâs largest mobile phone
| maker, sued Apple, Samsung, LG and eight other
| competitors within six weeks beginning in
| October, the Finnish technology giant said it
| was conducting a routine defense of its
| intellectual property.
|
| But for cellphone makers and suppliers
| accustomed to swapping valuable technologies,
| the suits filed by Nokia were far from
| standard.
|
| Like many cellphone makers, Nokia is fighting
| the economic downturn. The company has laid off
| thousands of employees this year to counter
| falling sales and profit and its slipping share
| of the global market, which fell to 35 percent
| in the third quarter from 41 percent in the
| second.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/companies/21iht-nokia.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimestech
NY Times Seems To Recognize That Nokia's Patent Fights Have Nothing To Do With Innovation
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091220/2258407439.shtml
Recent:
Google Sued Over Patents On Open Source Code
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| Specifically, Red Bend claims that Google's
| Chrome browser violates this patent by
| including an algorithm, called Courgette, that
| lets Google push compressed software updates.
| Of course, plenty of companies have come up
| with various ways to push compressed software
| updates over the years, so I'm at a loss as to
| why it requires a patent... but that's a
| different issue. The problem here is the
| reporting on this lawsuit by Mass High Tech and
| reporter Galen Moore. First, he claims that
| this lawsuit suggests Google's "open-source
| Chrome browser isn't so open source after all."
| Huh? I've read that sentence over and over
| again and I can't figure out how a patent
| dispute would mean that Chrome isn't open
| source. This kind of reporting suggests that a
| patent simply wipes out the type of license
| covering a software.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091028/0159066702.shtml
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