Survey of Free/Open Source Software
Analyzing the results of one of the most comprehensive surveys of Free and Open Source software developers, Karim Lakhani and Bob Wolf find a surprising picture of programmer motivation.
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Archive for October, 2003
Patent Pools and Litigation
Some scholars have proposed that patent pools may help reduce problems caused by “thickets” of patents–large numbers of patents covering a single technology. Jay Pil Choi raises a new problem with patent pools: they may distort firms’ incentives to challenge low quality patents.
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Patent Value & R&D
Using a unique dataset and a sophisticated model, Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli, and Wesley Cohen analyze the differential effect of patent protection on firm R&D spending.
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Patent Value & Litigation
John Allison, Mark Lemley, Kimberly Moore and Derek Trunkey compare a large number of litigated patents to non-litigated patents to obtain clues as to what makes a patent valuable to the patent holder.
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