Editing Software patent (section)

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061022090935/http://www.wipo.int/patent/law/en/developments/software.html ''Software and Business Methods''] on the [[World Intellectual Property Organization|WIPO]] web site
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050410183700/http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/mirror/impact/index.en.html FFII Annotated Bibliography]
* [http://www.softwarepatents.eu/ Softwarepatents.eu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626075717/http://softwarepatents.eu/ |date=2017-06-26 }}, an introduction to software patents in Europe and Germany (in German)

===Economic studies===
* {{citation|last1=Bessen|last2=Hunt|title=An Empirical Look at Software Patents|year=2004|url=http://www.researchoninnovation.org/swpat.pdf}} This paper includes a method of identifying software patents that has proved popular with organisations such as the Public Patent Foundation.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.researchoninnovation.org/softpat.pdf|title=The Software Patent Experiment|first1=James|last1=Bessen|first2=Robert M.|last2=Hunt|date=March 16, 2004}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.researchineurope.org/policy/hahn_wallsten.pdf|title=A Review of Bessen and Hunt's Analysis of Software Patents|first1=Robert|last1=Hahn|first2=Scott|last2=Wallsten|publisher=[[American Enterprise Institute]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094042/http://www.researchineurope.org/policy/hahn_wallsten.pdf|archive-date=2007-09-29}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.researchoninnovation.org/hahn.pdf|title=A Reply to Hahn and Wallsten|first1=James|last1=Bessen|first2=Robert M.|last2=Hunt|date=March 10, 2004}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf|title=To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy, A Report by the Federal Trade Commission|author=Federal Trade Commission|date=October 2003}}
* {{citation|url=http://eupat.ffii.org/papri/ftc03/|title=FTC 2003 Report on Patents and Competition|publisher=[[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure]] (FFII)|date=2004-08-16|access-date=2012-11-07|archive-date=2012-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121204023208/http://eupat.ffii.org/papri/ftc03/|url-status=dead}} – commentary on the FTC "To Promote Innovation" report, 2003 (translated into English)
* {{citation|url=http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0740.pdf|title=CEP Discussion Paper No 740: Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation|date=August 2006|first1=Michael|last1=Noel|first2=Mark|last2=Schankerman|publisher=Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science}}

===Books===
* {{cite book|url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8634.html|title=Patent Failure|first1=James|last1=Bessen|first2=Michael|last2=Meurer|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780691143217 }}
* {{cite book|url=http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/mathyoucantuse.htm|title=Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software|first=Ben|last=Klemens|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|year=2005}}
* {{cite book|title=The Patent Wars: The Battle to Own the World's Technology|first=Fred|last=Warshofsky|date=October 3, 1994|isbn=978-0-471-59902-9|publisher=Wiley|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/patentwarsbattle00wars}}
* Information Feudalism – Peter Drahos {{cite book|title=Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?|first=Peter|last=Drahos|publisher=The New Press|date=May 1, 2003|isbn=1-56584-804-7}}
* {{cite book|first=Florian|last=Müller|url=http://crashrecovery.org/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf|title=No Lobbyists As Such: The War over Software Patents in the European Union|year=2006|access-date=2008-05-28|archive-date=2009-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326022646/http://crashrecovery.org/NoLobbyistsAsSuch.pdf|url-status=dead}} – 377-page play-by-play memoir of the story of Florian's part in the campaign over the EU software patent directive.
* {{cite book|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6487700/?site_locale=en_GB|title=Software and Patents in Europe|first=Philip|last=Leith|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2007}}

===Papers and presentations===
*{{citation|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p475.pdf|first=David|last=Edwards|title=Platonism Is the Law of the Land}} 
* {{citation|url=http://www.phil.frb.org/research-and-data/publications/business-review/2001/q1/brq101bh.pdf|first=R|last=Hunt|title=You can patent that?|access-date=2019-01-21|archive-date=2013-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112210524/http://www.phil.frb.org/research-and-data/publications/business-review/2001/q1/brq101bh.pdf|url-status=dead}} – Overview of the legal history and trends
* {{citation|url=http://szabo.best.vwh.net/elementalsubjectmatter.pdf|first=N.|last=Szabo|title=Elemental Subject Matter|access-date=2006-03-25|archive-date=2006-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519040201/http://szabo.best.vwh.net/elementalsubjectmatter.pdf|url-status=dead}} – How software came to be patentable in the United States
* {{citation|url=http://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/papers/swpat_europe_20061030.pdf|first=François|last=Pellegrini|contribution=Analysis of software patentability in Europe (Chapter 11)|title=Software Patents – Legal Perspectives|pages=192–209|year=2007|publisher=Amicus Books – ICFAI University Press|isbn=978-81-314-0653-3}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.furutani.co.jp/office/ronbun/Business_method_patents_in_Japan.pdf|first=Hideo|last=Furutani|title=Patentability of Business Method Inventions in Japan Compared with the US and Europe|format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] presentation|location=Arlington, Virginia; United States Patent and Trademark Office|year=2003}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html|first=Richard M.|last=Stallman|title=The Dangers of Software Patents|date=May 24, 2004|access-date=2007-01-29|archive-date=2013-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115221652/http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite journal|url=https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/canrev/cr55/IEEECanadianReview_no55.pdf|first=Alexandre|last=Abecassis|title=Patenting Software Innovations: A brief overview of the situation in some jurisdictions of interest|journal=IEEE Canadian Review|issue=55|pages=24–27|publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE)}}
* {{cite journal|url=http://reoxy.org/swpc.htm|first=Brian|last=Kahin|title=The Software Patent Crisis|date=April 1990|journal=[[Technology Review]]|publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}

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