About “trivial” software patents: The Is
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Jan A. Bergstra; Paul Klint
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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So-called "trivial" software patents undermine the patenting system and are detrimental for innovation. In this paper we use a case-based approach to get a better understanding of this phenomenon. First, we establish a baseline for studying the relation between software development and intellectual