OVERVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE Sample Clauses

OVERVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE. Information technology industries rely heavily on intellectual property law to protect their products and other assets. For this reason, this book provides considerable coverage of intellectual property issues. Chapter 1 demonstrates how trade secrecy law can be used to protect some valuable aspects of software and other information technologies. Chapter 2 considers the extent to which copyright law provides protection to computer programs. Chapter 3 traces the evolution of patent protection for software innovations. Chapter 4 explores the supplemental protection that may be available to information technology firms from trademark law. In addition, Chapter 5 considers some sui generis forms of legal protection that have been considered or adopted to protect certain information technology products (e.g., semiconductor chip designs and databases) for which existing intellectual property regimes may provide inadequate protection. Chapter 8 also provides an overview of some differences in the intellectual property rules applicable to computer software and other information technology innovations in the international market. While computer software may have been the first digital information product to rely crucially on intellectual property laws, other digital information products rely heavily on intellectual property protection as well. Hence, in Part II, Chapters 10 and 11 will consider a range of digital intellectual property issues that arise in the context of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Because so much of this book emphasizes intellectual property law and because information technology developers need to develop complex strategies built up as multiple forms of legal protection, this chapter provides a brief overview of the specific forms of intellectual property law. This may be helpful before the reader delves into the book’s detailed consideration of how each mode of protection may be used to protect some aspects of software or other information technology products or services. Intellectual property law comprises a diverse array of state and federal legal regimes. Under state law, intellectual work can be protected through contract law, trade secrecy protection, and trademark protection. Under federal law, intellectual work can be protected by patent law, copyright law, and trade- mark/trade dress protection under the Xxxxxx Act. These regimes interact in a number of ways, and the subject matter of these various modes of legal protection overla...
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  • COMPUTER SOFTWARE The Grantee certifies that it has appropriate systems and controls in place to ensure that state funds will not be used in the performance of this Grant Agreement for the acquisition, operation, or maintenance of computer software in violation of copyright laws.

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  • License of Intellectual Property Each Party (a “Licensor”) grants the other Party (a “Licensee”) the non-exclusive, royalty-free, paid-up, worldwide, irrevocable, right, during the term of this Agreement, to use the Licensor’s Intellectual Property solely for the purposes of this Agreement and to carry out the Party’s functions consistent with its responsibilities and authority as set forth in the enable legislation and regulations. Such licenses shall not give the Licensee any ownership interest in or rights to the Intellectual Property of the Licensor. Each Licensee agrees to abide by all third-party license and confidentiality restrictions or obligations applicable to the Licensor’s Intellectual Property of which the Licensor has notified the Licensee in writing.

  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 9.1 The Institution acknowledges that all copyrights, patent rights, trade marks, database rights, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights relating to the Licensed Material are the sole and exclusive property of Publisher or are duly licensed to the Publisher and that this Licence does not assign or transfer to the Institution any right, title or interest therein except for the right to use the Licensed Material in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Licence.

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