Courts expanded software patentability without proof that it would increase innovation, and the result was that corporations filed and acquired thousands of software patents used to strategically undermine competitor projects.
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What makes things worse, courts decided to increase the protections for software despite lacking proof that additional patentability of software would increase the level of innovation.
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859
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United States courts, early 2000s onward
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failuresupport: arguedfailure: patent expansion without innovation evidencefamily: innovation-chillingopen-source-and-codeinnovationlaw-and-legal-systems
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