--> deutsch; Swpat Damage Repair Costs, Patent Accounting, software sector, venture capital
Purpose
- document the costs of patents from the patentee perspective and other perspectives
- document other costs of the patent system and possible legilsative option
- document the impact of patents on company accounting
Links
Patent Acquisition Fees at the European Patent Office (german only)
Patent Acquisition Fees at the German Patent Office (german only)
Eurolinux 2001 position on the Community Patent (contains some thoughts on why patents are costly and what to observe when trying to make them cheaper)
Software Patents with Compensatory Regulation -- A Cost Analysis -- assessment of the costs incurred when seriously trying to make the patent system capable of dealing with software while avoiding the most extreme harm
- Patent Insurance -- DKPTO and CEC have been proposing such schemes, need documentation
