# kaal:claim:3808859-023

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- United States courts, early 2000s onward

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades* (2021), IV.4 Shortcomings, page 35

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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**Failure mode.** patent expansion without innovation evidence  (family: innovation-chilling)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, innovation, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** software-patents, innovation-policy, open-source, litigation

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