University Software 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. The European Union is currently embroiled in a fierce debate over the merits of allowing software patents. In the U.S., where such patents exist, some economists have argued that patents and software innovation are likely to be substitutes rather than complements. Various legal scholars have quarreled with the breadth of software patent claims. The controversy over software patents has also been fueled by the rise, and arguable success, of the “open source” movement in software. Open source software developers eschew patents. Although they do rely on intellectual property in the form of
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تاریخ انتشار 2005