Some additional areas where research might be interesting: interoperability vs patents, as demanded by Lutterbeck [18] comparative research on innovation in different industries (''for years I have been arguing for studies (not opinions) to be done of the quality of issued patents in a variety of fields'' (Aharonian [1]), a study on the conspicuous absence of IP in philosophy and / or the political left and of course game theory of the generation of IP rights.