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37 Vand. L. Rev. 147 (1984)
Policy Implications of Granting Patent Protection to Computer Software: An Economic Analysis, The

handle is hein.journals/vanlr37 and id is 161 raw text is: NOTE The Policy Implications of Granting Patent Protection to Computer Software: An Economic Analysis* I. INTRODUCTION ...................................... 148 II. COMPUTER SOFTWARE: ALGORITHMS AND THE MAR- KETPLACE .......................................... 151 A. Computer Software Technology ............. 152 B. Software Algorithms ....................... 153 C. The Computer Software Industry ........... 156 III. PATENT ECONOMICS: BARRIERS TO ENTRY AND THE EXPECTATIONAL EFFECT ............................. 158 A. Knowledge as a Product ................... 158 B. Barriers to Entry .......................... 160 C. Incentive and the Innovative Response ...... 160 D. The Expectational Effect ................... 161 IV. PATENT LAW PRINCIPLES ............................ 161 A. The Subject Matter Requirement ........... 162 B. Process Patents and the Laws of Nature Lim itation ................................ 163 V. SUPREME COURT TREATMENT OF SOFTWARE PATENT CASES ............................................. 165 A. Supreme Court Software Patent Cases ...... 165 1. 1972: Gottschalk v. Benson .............. 165 2. 1978: Parker v. Flook ................... 167 3. 1981: Diamond v. Diehr ................. 169 B. Supreme Court Mischaracterization of Software Algorithms ....................... 172 VI. ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE PATENTABILITY: A POLICY QUESTION .......................................... 175 * Cited in Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc. v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., 564 F. Supp. 1358 (D. Del. 1983) (Latchum, C.J.).

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