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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