The functional nature of computer software underlies two propositions that were, until recently, fairly well settled in intellectual property law: first, that software, like other utilitarian articles, may qualify for patent protection; and second, that the scope of copyright protection for...

Computer programs, as an area of protection under the copyright branch of Intellectual Property Laws is an important aspect to venture upon. Whenever one thinks about protection of Intellectual Property in computer programs, a thought travels to the protection afforded by the law of Patents....

Software should not be patented, but the Intellectual Property Rights should be protected in another manner that does not entail a Copyright, Trademark or secrecy. A new form of protection should be created based on certain criteria such as useful life of a patent, incremental innovation, value...

Decision problems, which include multi criteria that are conflicting and take both qualitative and quantitative values, multi-criteria decision-making approaches are effective for process modeling and achieving a solution. Decision process which has more than one decision maker is called group...

Video games have grown to become one of the most important industries in the world. They combine a wide range of creative, industrial and technological elements, such as graphics, software, musical compositions, sound recordings, trademarks, patents and even storytelling that could be literary...

Over the past several decades an expansion of coverage has evolved in individual intellectual property rights, especially copyright and patent. This expansion has caused overlap to occur between rights, thus allowing for an inefficient intellectual property regime that permits overreaching...

Courts have struggled for decades to develop a test for judging infringement claims in software copyright cases that distinguishes between program expression that copyright law protects and program functionality for which copyright protection is unavailable. The case law thus far has adopted...

During the past decade, undergraduate computer science students have become progressively more interested in pursuing less traditional paths of employment after graduation. While most still choose to work for established businesses, others are choosing to start businesses of their own. For...

If we model microeconomic systems in terms of their information processing characteristics, we may find it useful to compare our models to those produced by the discipline devoted to the study of information processing. Computer science, and in particular its sub-field of software engineering,...

How should researchers design experiments to detect treatment effects with panel data? In this paper, we derive analytical expressions for the variance of panel estimators under non-i.i.d. error structures, which inform power calculations in panel data settings. Using Monte Carlo simulation, we...