Re: [Patents] Questionnaires/surveys about software patents...

[Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@ugent.be>]

On 18 okt 2004, at 22:44, Taavi Dovnar wrote:

> I have found Tang/Adams/Pari study in year 2000. Also there is study in
> Germany Micro- and Macroeconomic Implications..., done by Fraunhofer  
> and
> Max Planck Institutes (full report is in Germany, which I don't
> understand unfortunately).

Did you also see that study's presentation? It contains some nice  
graphs:  
http://trendchart.cordis.lu/Reports/Documents/Edler_Lux_2003.ppt

> Are there more similar studys?

* The USPTO 1994 hearings: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/san-jose.html
* The FTC hearings from 2002  
(http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/intelpropertycomments/index.htm), with  
the conclusions (http://www.ffii.org.uk/ftc/ftc.html)
* UKPTO consultation:  
http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/responses/comsoft/ 
index.htm (their quite uninformative summary:  
http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/conclusions.htm)
* The EU Commission public consultation from 2000:  
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/comp/ 
softpatanalyse.htm (whose conclusions were tried to dismiss the  
majority of the feedback, because it was submitted via the EuroLinux  
Alliance; see http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eukonsult00/)

You can find an overview of other studies at  
http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/cons0406/parl/, but I don't think there are  
any more consultation papers.


Jonas