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Books about software and patents
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Several books have been published specifically about the topic of software patents. Other books have sections about the topic.
Contents
Specifically on software patents
Books
- Patent Law for Computer Scientists, Steps to Protect Computer-implemented Inventions -- by four EPO examiners, 2010
- Software and Patents in Europe -- by Philip Leith, 2007
- No Lobbyists As Such -- by Florian Müller, 2006 (about the EU software patents directive)
- Math You Can't Use -- by Ben Klemens, 2005 (about the USA)
- The Karmarkar Patent and Software - Is Math Patentable? -- by KONNO Hiroshi, 1995 (about Japan)
Papers
- The Rise of the Information Processing Patent,[1] by Ben Klemens
- On the Grammar of Patent Claims,[2] by Georg Jakob and Hartmut Pilch
On the patent system or innovation
Books
- Don't File a Patent, by John Smith, 2011
- Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk, by James Bessen and Michael Meurer, 2009
- Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, 2008
- Patent Failure, by James Bessen and Michael Meurer, Princeton University Press, 2008
- The Patent Wars: The Battle to Own the World's Technology, by Fred Warshofsky
- Democratizing Innovation, by Eric Von Hippel, 2005
- Information Feudalism, by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite
- Legal Protection of Digital Information, by Lee A. Hollaar (Professor at Utah, USA) Chapter 5 is about software patents
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Sources of software patent news
- List of recordings and transcripts
- Studies on economics and innovation
