{"id":12572,"date":"2012-11-27T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:31:24","slug":"the-case-to-end-software-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/11\/27\/the-case-to-end-software-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case To End Software Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of November, the University of New Hampshire School of Law officially designated its library as the &#8220;New Hampshire Patent and Trademark Resource Center.&#8221; The hope is for the center to &#8220;promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,&#8221; says David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, we just came across a video made by George Mason University professor <a href=\"http:\/\/mason.gmu.edu\/~atabarro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tabarrok<\/a>. In the video, Tabarrok makes the case that patents encourage innovation in some fields, but hinder it in others.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xkWPGwfuQcM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xkWPGwfuQcM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Tabarrok blogs for <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marginal Revolution.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of November, the University of New Hampshire School of Law officially designated its library as the &#8220;New Hampshire Patent and Trademark Resource Center.&#8221; The hope is for the center to &#8220;promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,&#8221; says David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and Director of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,53,14],"tags":[447,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}