Intellectual property law for software professionals

Author

Stratton, Robert P.

Author_Institution

Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, Toronto, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

26-29 May 1996

Firstpage

915

Abstract

Due perhaps to the exponential growth of the use of computers, and the corresponding increase in the monetary value of software and computer related technologies, the legal issues surrounding these technologies are increasingly affecting software professionals such as researchers, developers, publishers and others. The author believes that it is now essential for software professionals to understand intellectual property regimes such as trade secrets, trademarks, and especially copyrights and patents and how they specifically relate to software and computer related developments

Keywords

copyright; industrial property; legislation; patents; software development management; computer-related developments; copyrights; developers; intellectual property law; legal issues; patents; publishers; researchers; software professionals; software-related developments; technological innovation; trade secrets; trademarks; Business; Copyright protection; Intellectual property; Law; Legal factors; Read only memory; Read-write memory; Software; Trademarks; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, Alta.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3143-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1996.548302

Filename

548302