Interfaces on trial : intellectual property and interoperability in the global software industry

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Interfaces on trial : intellectual property and interoperability in the global software industry

by Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh

Westview Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume goes beyond the story of one of the key struggles for intellectual-property rights in the computer-software industry to provide a broad background for understanding future debates within the global-software industry, including those that will focus on key issues dealing with the information superhighway.

Table of Contents

  • Technology and industry context
  • legal context
  • unprotectability of interface specifications
  • permissibility of reverse engineering
  • EC software directive and its progeny
  • interoperability debate in Japan
  • the next frontiers.

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