April 20
Read the parts of Chapter 4 of Baase on Software Patents and Chapter 5 on Crime.
Debates
What is the objection to software patents? Maybe primarily that they are too easily granted, and too easily enforced, and so can discourage investment in software development. Alternatively, maybe software is only marginally about inventions.
Bandwidth-shaping patents
MP3
i4i v Microsoft
NTP v RIM
State Street Bank
Apple v Samsung
Graham
Europe
KSR v Teleflex
Bilski
Mayo Labs
Abstract patents, Ultramercial
Alice
Venue