James Bessen on software patents

James Bessen is, along with Michael Meurer, the author of Patent Failure.

Bessen is also the author of An Empirical Look at Software Patents, along with Robert Hunt.

Bessen appeared in the Patent Absurdity video.

External links

• A Generation of Software Patents, 2011 study which concludes that software patent are not beneficial for society
• The Patent Litigation Explosion, Michael J. Meurer & James Bessen
• Slides from a 2004 presentation
• Jim Bessen: Do Patents Work as Property?, article by FFII
• The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls, Nov 2011, paper by Bessen, Ford, and Meurer
• What the Courts Did to Curb Patent Trolling—for Now, 1 Dec 2014 (six-month review of Alice v. CLS Bank)