The Commission's Consultation Questionnaire
English French German Spanish Dutch
Banner
Put this in your web page's HTML:
<a class="consultation.ffii.org"><img src="/img/spacer.gif">
<a class="consultation.ffii.org"><img src="/img/spacer.gif">
FFII Analysis
FFII analysis from this website, in PDF format: wgepl0601-11b.pdf
Classic and Modern Studies
Fritz Machlup, An Economic Review of the Patent System, US Congress Study, 1958 (PDF) - a good paper about the history of patent law under an economic perspective
Study on the cost of patenting in Europe prepared on behalf of the EPO by Roland Berger Market Research (pdf)
IFIS Study, Wechselbeziehung zwischen Interoperabilität, Patentschutz und Wettbewerb, 2004, (German pdf ftp://internet-sicherheit.de/swpat/ifis_kurzgutachten.pdf)
Bessen/Hunt, An Empirical Look at Software Patents, Federal Reserve Bank, Philadephia, 2004