Session IA
Knut Blind and Jakob Edler
kb@isi.fhg.de
Idiosyncrasies of the Software Development Process
and their Relation to Software Patents:
Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Abstract
In Europe, the future patenting of software-related inventions has been the subject
of intensive discussions for some time, since their exists a strong dispute between
the supporters of the U.S. practice of allowing patents in order to increase Europe´s
competitiveness and the opponents postulating negative impacts of patents on the
software development process. This paper presents empirical results about the idiosyncrasies
of the software development process and tests hypotheses on their impact
on the likelihood of patents being obstacles for software development. The paper
concludes with the identification of determinants for preferences concerning different
possible patent regimes in the future.
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