Editing Software patent debate (section)

===Hinders innovation===
* The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] published the [[Defend Innovation]] whitepaper after doing two and a half years of research on software patents. They concluded that many overbroad software patents are being awarded, which is actually stifling innovation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-outlines-plan-fix-broken-patent-system |title=EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=2015-02-23 }}</ref>
* [[Interoperability]] is thought to promote innovation, and patent systems have the potential to block the development of such technologies.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Samuelson|first=Pamela|year=2008|title=Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability|url=http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2712&context=facpubs|journal=Berkeley Law|via=Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository}}</ref>
* There has been a lack of empirical evidence to suggest that patents have any positive effect on innovation, and furthermore, the system primarily “encourage[s] failing monopolists to inhibit competition by blocking innovation.”<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Boldrin|first1=Michele|last2=Levine|first2=David K|date=2013-02-01|title=The Case Against Patents|journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives|language=en|volume=27|issue=1|pages=3–22|doi=10.1257/jep.27.1.3|issn=0895-3309|doi-access=free}}</ref>