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Do Patents Facilitate Financing In The Software Industry?, Ronald J. Mann
Do Patents Facilitate Financing In The Software Industry?, Ronald J. Mann
Faculty Scholarship
This Article is the first part of a wide study of the role of intellectual property in the software industry. Unlike previous papers that focus primarily on software patents – which generally are held by firms that are not software firms – this Article provides a thorough and contextually grounded description of the role that patents play in the software industry itself.
The bulk of the Article considers the pros and cons of patents in the software industry. The Article starts by emphasizing the difficulties that prerevenue startups face in obtaining any value from patents. Litigation to enforce patents is …
Making Sense Of Payments Policy In The Information Age, Ronald J. Mann
Making Sense Of Payments Policy In The Information Age, Ronald J. Mann
Faculty Scholarship
Although I had been mulling over the ideas in this Essay for quite some time, I finally was driven to put the ideas on paper by a call from a colleague one Friday afternoon. He recently had purchased something on the Internet. Regrettably, the Internet merchant had never shipped the goods; apparently the merchant had failed. My colleague had given the merchant the number from his Visa card to pay for the transaction. Being well educated, my colleague assumed that he could have the charge removed from his credit card statement.
When he called the toll-free service line for the …