Ownership : Trends , Determinants , Issues
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Software patents and university-owned patents represent two of the more controversial intellectual property developments of the past 25 years. For the last few years, the European Union has been embroiled in a fierce debate over the merits of explicitly allowing software patents. In the U.S., where such patents clearly exist, various legal scholars have quarreled with the breadth of software patent claims. Some have also suggested that, given the poor quality of prior art documentation and patent examiner training in the area of software, many issued software patents are likely to be obvious. More generally, there is significant debate over the extent to which software patents are likely to foster innovation. Because software products are often “complex” and may infringe many patents, some producers of end-product software are also
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