Patentability of Software

 Anton Hughes, The Patentability of Software: Software as Mathematics (Routledge, 2019). 

This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the EU, and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding the patentability of software and describes why it is that the software patent issue should be dealt with as a patentable subject matter issue, rather than as an issue of novelty or non-obviousness. 

-Publisher's Description

The Future of the Patent System

Ryo Shimanami (ed.) (Kobe University). The Future of the Patent System (Edward Elgar, 2012).

"In a rapidly changing world, the underlying philosophies, the rationale and the appropriateness of patent law have come under question. In this insightful collection, the authors undertake a careful examination of existing patent systems and their prospects for the future. Scholars and practitioners from Japan, the US, Europe, India, Brazil and China give detailed analyses of current and likely future problems with their respective systems, and outline possible responses to them."
—The Future of the Patent System book jacket 

Pharmageddon

David Healy (Cardiff University). Pharmageddon (University of California Press, 2012).

“David Healy’s comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine is a searing indictment of problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy… attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials.”
—Pharmageddon Book Jacket