[Patents] patent pools enforcing per-copy-licensing modeof software development

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:51:14AM +0100, Francois PELLEGRINI wrote:
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> Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> > Wrong - SOME economists do not think that software patents help.  Some
> > economists DO think software patents help (in the sense that they think
> > venture capital helps software development, and patents are one tool
> > that venture capitalists make use of to protect their investments).
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> =11   But venture capitalists also begin to be threatened to put money
> in some company, even if it has patents, when other patents may explode
> as landmines on their way to industrialization. Here again, software
> patents make that they have no guarantee of profitability, although they
> could at least be sure to be allowed to market their product if software
> patents did not exist...

In other word, there may be some short term benefits, but in the
longer term, the patents get in the way of more innovation, or more
safe investment, for all the reasons that have been described
elsewhere.
   And do not bother telling it is the same in all fields ... it is
not, because parameters are different, and you well know it.

  Now, I CHALLENGE YOU to exhibit economic studies that concludes to
the economic and technological usefulness of software patents in the
long term.

Bernard

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