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"?One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections.?-Library Journal ?Softwars is a lively account of the development of intellectual property law regarding computer software . . . Clapes is remarkably successful at making a technical subject approachable.?-Yale Journal of International Law ""Softwars is a lively account of the development of intellectual property law regarding computer software . . . Clapes is remarkably successful at making a technical subject approachable.""-Yale Journal of International Law ""One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections.""-Library Journal"

?One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections.?-Library Journal

One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections. -Library Journal Softwars is a lively account of the development of intellectual property law regarding computer software . . . Clapes is remarkably successful at making a technical subject approachable. -Yale Journal of International Law ?Softwars is a lively account of the development of intellectual property law regarding computer software . . . Clapes is remarkably successful at making a technical subject approachable.?-Yale Journal of International Law ?One of the fastest growing areas of law is computer litigation, and by far the most volatile aspect of it concerns intellecutual property rights. For Example, is there copyright protection for a screen display? Can software be patented? More and more cases are springing up within the computer industry that test the limits of intellectual property law, and Clapes here gives a comprehensive account of those various legal battles. Amazingly readable for a book about both law and computers, this well-researched and well-organized volume covers all aspect of the software skirmishes, from copyright and patent law to the economics involved, and even offers some predictions on possible legal trends and wranglings. Entertaining, yet thought-provoking, this is recommended for legal, business, and computer collections.?-Library Journal

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ANTHONY L. CLAPES is Assistant General Counsel at IBM, responsible for managing litigation matters, including intellectual property ligitation. Mr. Clapes is a frequent lecturer at seminars on intellectual property protection for software. In 1991, he was named one of the leading high-tech intellectual property lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal. He is the author of a seminal book on copyright law and computer programs, Software, Copyright and Competition: The Look and Feel of the Law (Quorum, 1989).

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