%0 Conference Paper %B OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13) %D 2006 %T Software Patents and Open Source Software in the European Union: Evidences of a Trade-Off? %A Rentocchini, Francesco %A De Prato, Giuditta %X The present work aims at giving an account of the patenting behaviour in the software sector, focusing on the European Union and pointing out issues regarding a trade-off which would support a policy attitude in favour of a wider diffusion of the Open Source model. %B OSS2006: Open Source Systems (IFIP 2.13) %S IFIP International Federation for Information Processing %I Springer %V 203/2006 %P 349 - 351 %8 2006/// %G eng %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34226-5_41 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Software%20Patents%20and%20Open%20Source%20Software.pdf