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Looking forward to 2010
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| Software patents will strike close to home
| again. Nokia's suit against Apple is an
| especially ominous development. We are seeing
| the opening of a whole new computing market
| where none of the traditionally dominating
| companies have a commanding share. So it's a
| bit of a gold rush, and some companies will
| undoubtedly rush to gain their gold by way of
| the courts.
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http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/368120/6b7f5c7e6cc9272d/
Cartoon about patents:
Dilbert on Quantifiying R&D Value
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002166
Recent:
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
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