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Eric S. Maskin and software patents
by philippe cat.: brevets / patents
Monday 15 Oct 2007 at 2.28 pm

Eric S. Maskin has just been awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic 
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, often called Nobel Prize in Economics.
[...]
He is the co-author of the landmark 2000 Bessen-Maskin paper on the 
relationship between sequential innovation, patents and investment in R&D. 
This work played a significant role in the debate on software patents as 
it pioneered a series of work that demonstrated that far from acting as a 
R&D incentive, patents act as a disincentive in domains where incremental 
innovation is important (such as software).

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