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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Bronwyn Hall (Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley)
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The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about business method and internet patents briefly and then explores what economists know about the relationship between the patent system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this particular expansion of patentable subject matter, highlighting remaining areas of disagreement, and suggesting where there are major gaps in our understanding of the impact of these patents.
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Keywords: intellectual property ; State Street ; software ; internet ; business methods ; patents ; innovation ; Other versions of this item:
Paper Bronwyn H. Hall, 2004.
"Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy ,"
Law and Economics
0401001, EconWPA.
[Downloadable!] Bronwyn H. Hall, 2003.
"Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy ,"
NBER Working Papers
9717, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Socio-Economics of Innovation
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"On the Division of Profit in Sequential Innovation ,"
RAND Journal of Economics ,
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Other versions: Bronwyn H. Hall & Stuart J.H. Graham & Dietmar Harhoff, 2003.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition ,"
NBER Working Papers
9731, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Other versions:
Bronwyn H. Hall & Stuart J. H. Graham & Dietmar Harhoff & David C. Mowery, 2004.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition ,"
Law and Economics
0401002, EconWPA.
[Downloadable!] Bronwyn Hall & Stuart Graham & Dietmar Harhoff & David Mowery, 2003.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition ,"
Department of Economics, Working Paper Series
1054, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
[Downloadable!] Bronwyn H. Hall & Stuart Graham & Dietmar Harhoff & David C. Mowery, 2004.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Postgrant Opposition ,"
NBER Chapters ,
in: Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 4, pages 115-144
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Jean Olson Lanjouw & Mark Schankerman, 2001.
"Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights ,"
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NBER Working Papers
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"You can patent that? Are patents on computer programs and business methods good for the new economy? ,"
Business Review ,
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, issue Q1, pages 5-15.
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Jean Olson Lanjouw & Mark Schankerman, 2001.
"Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights ,"
STICERD - Economics of Industry Papers
30, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
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Suzanne Scotchmer, 1996.
"Protecting Early Innovators: Should Second-Generation Products Be Patentable? ,"
RAND Journal of Economics ,
The RAND Corporation, vol. 27(2), pages 322-331, Summer.
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Bronwyn H. Hall & Grid Thoma & Salvatore Torrisi, 2009.
"Financial Patenting in Europe ,"
NBER Working Papers
14714, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Pollock, Rufus, 2006.
"Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights ,"
MPRA Paper
5025, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 17 Jul 2007.
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Bronwyn H. Hall & Stuart J. H. Graham & Dietmar Harhoff & David C. Mowery, 2004.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition ,"
Law and Economics
0401002, EconWPA.
[Downloadable!]
Other versions:
Bronwyn Hall & Stuart Graham & Dietmar Harhoff & David Mowery, 2003.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition ,"
Department of Economics, Working Paper Series
1054, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
[Downloadable!] Bronwyn H. Hall & Stuart J.H. Graham & Dietmar Harhoff, 2003.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition ,"
NBER Working Papers
9731, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
[Downloadable!] (restricted) Bronwyn H. Hall & Stuart Graham & Dietmar Harhoff & David C. Mowery, 2004.
"Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Postgrant Opposition ,"
NBER Chapters ,
in: Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 4, pages 115-144
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
[Downloadable!] Bronwyn H. Hall & Megan MacGarvie, 2006.
"The Private Value of Software Patents ,"
NBER Working Papers
12195, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Oecd, 2004.
"Patents and Innovation: Trends and Policy Challenges ,"
Levine's Working Paper Archive
122247000000000502, David K. Levine.
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Stefan Wagner, 2004.
"Business Method Patents in Europe and their Strategic Use – Evidence from Franking Device Manufacturers ,"
Law and Economics
0410003, EconWPA.
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Wagner, Stefan, 2006.
"Business Method Patents in Europe and their Strategic Use - Evidence from Franking Device Manufacturers ,"
Discussion Papers in Business Administration
1265, University of Munich, Munich School of Management.
[Downloadable!] Stefan Wagner, 2008.
"Business Method Patents In Europe And Their Strategic Use - Evidence From Franking Device Manufacturers ,"
Economics of Innovation and New Technology ,
Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 17(3), pages 173-194.
[Downloadable!] (restricted) Bronwyn H. Hall & Lee Manfred, 2007.
"Innovation in non-bank payment systems ,"
Proceedings – Payments System Research Conferences ,
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
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Bronwyn H. Hall, 2009.
"Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy ,"
NBER Working Papers
14868, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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