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The Vocabulary Subcommittee of the International Standards Organization's Technical Committee on Computers and Information Processing (ISO/TC97/SC1) held its third…
Patent protection of computer programs
Recently, the computer industry has been exploring anew the question of whether programs for operating an electronic digital computer are or should be patentable.
Copyright aspects of computer usage
This paper is concerned with the question of what constitutes infringement of a copyright on a book or other nondramatic literary work when the work is fed into a…
Suppose a potentially very valuable experimental multi-computer system is being designed by you and your group. You feel you have made at least a system invention. In…
Joint inventorship of computers
The term joint inventorship asks but does not necessarily answer the question, “Who is the true inventor of a computer?” I will try to show how…
Computer programs are patentable
It is not surprising that computer programs are not listed in the patent statutes as one of the categories of patentable invention. When these categories were defined…
A method for scheduling final examinations to yield a minimal number of student conflicts is described. The “minimization” is achieved by repetitively…
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