This paper is designed to affirm the possibly of software patenting while taking the comparison between the legal approach of America, Europe and India. Although copyright is Main method of patent protection but it is not the absolute form of protection, in copyright the expression is more...

This article argues that competition and innovation in the software industry in the EU will be seriously undermined if the Court of Justice of the European Union in SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. holds that copyright protection for computer programs extends to the functional...

Geocomputation, with its necessary focus on software development and methods innovation, has enjoyed a close relationship with free and open source software communities. These extend from communities providing the numerical infrastructure for computation, such as BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra...

This powerpoint presentation was made at the Federal Judicial Academy Islamabad to Civil Judges/Judicial Magistrates from all over Pakistan on the subject. Software infringement and internet piracy are now worldwide phenomenon and no country on the globe is saved from its scourges. Judiciary has...

The Stata package ebalance implements entropy balancing, a multivariate reweighting method described in Hainmueller (2011) that allows users to reweight a dataset such that the covariate distributions in the reweighted data satisfy a set of speci ed moment conditions. This can be useful to...

An extensive literature in economics and business provides guidelines for profit maximization for firms in various market structures. However, these elaborate and sophisticated techniques and rules for profit maximization require appropriate estimation of a company’s cost and revenue functions...

IS IT WRONG TO ALLOW IDEOLOGY to pervade political decisions on software procurement, or is it inevitable that governments profess a particular conception of the good with respect to every aspect of societal life? This article advances a normative framework, based upon a broad conception of the...

Customer information is exchanged more frequently with each passing day. As consumers expect to purchase goods more easily in our electronic economy, they also increasingly rely on businesses to protect their personal information. Businesses protect personal information by installing encryption...