Editing Software patent (section)

===Economic studies===
* {{citation|last1=Bessen|last2=Hunt|title=An Empirical Look at Software Patents|year=2004|url=http://www.researchoninnovation.org/swpat.pdf}} This paper includes a method of identifying software patents that has proved popular with organisations such as the Public Patent Foundation.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.researchoninnovation.org/softpat.pdf|title=The Software Patent Experiment|first1=James|last1=Bessen|first2=Robert M.|last2=Hunt|date=March 16, 2004}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.researchineurope.org/policy/hahn_wallsten.pdf|title=A Review of Bessen and Hunt's Analysis of Software Patents|first1=Robert|last1=Hahn|first2=Scott|last2=Wallsten|publisher=[[American Enterprise Institute]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094042/http://www.researchineurope.org/policy/hahn_wallsten.pdf|archive-date=2007-09-29}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.researchoninnovation.org/hahn.pdf|title=A Reply to Hahn and Wallsten|first1=James|last1=Bessen|first2=Robert M.|last2=Hunt|date=March 10, 2004}}
* {{citation|url=http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf|title=To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy, A Report by the Federal Trade Commission|author=Federal Trade Commission|date=October 2003}}
* {{citation|url=http://eupat.ffii.org/papri/ftc03/|title=FTC 2003 Report on Patents and Competition|publisher=[[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure]] (FFII)|date=2004-08-16|access-date=2012-11-07|archive-date=2012-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121204023208/http://eupat.ffii.org/papri/ftc03/|url-status=dead}} – commentary on the FTC "To Promote Innovation" report, 2003 (translated into English)
* {{citation|url=http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0740.pdf|title=CEP Discussion Paper No 740: Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation|date=August 2006|first1=Michael|last1=Noel|first2=Mark|last2=Schankerman|publisher=Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science}}