CS181: References for Software Patent Reform

• Jeff Bezos and Tim O’Reilly. A conversation on the patent system consisting of O’Reilly’s An open letter to Jeff Bezos, Bezos’s reply in the form of An open letter from Jeff Bezos on the subject of patents, and O’Reilly’s note on patent reform, all of which appeared in 2000.
• Randall Davis, Pamela Samuelson, Mitchell Kapor, and Jerome Reichman. A new view of intellectual property and software. Communications of the ACM, March 1996.
• Robert Hunt. Patent reform: A mixed blessing for the U.S. economy? Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review, November/December, 1999.
• Adam Liptak. Court hears Microsoft patent case. The New York Times, April 18, 2011.
• Megan McArdle. Patents as property: Part 1 and Part 2. The Atlantic, May 28, 2008.
• Robert McFarlane and Timothy Fisher. Software patents under 35 U.S.C. § 271(F): Should Congress amend § 271 to harmonize protection between tangible and intangible inventors? Hastings Science and Technology Law Journal, 2010.
• Claire Cain Miller. Google bids $900 million for Nortel patent assets. The New York Times, April 4, 2011.
• Kenneth Shadlen, Andrew Schrank, and Marcus Kurtz. The political economy of intellectual property protection: The case of software. International Studies Quarterly, 2005.
• Robert Thomas. Debugging software patents: Increasing innovation and reducing uncertainty in the judicial reform of software patent law. Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, 2009.