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Law Debugging --- Refining Software Patent Laws in the U.S. and China.
<p>This dissertation studies the patent protection for software related inventions in the U.S. and in China. It discusses the differences among trade secret law, copyright law, and patent law as the body of law to protect software inventions in the U.S. and concludes that patent law is …
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A Preliminary Analysis of how a Software Organization’s Maturity and Size Affect its Intellectual Property Portfolio
… known as IP, is complex. The four main types of software IP, which is what this thesis will focus on, are patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyright. Patents, trade secrets, and copyrights were all studied by this thesis. Software IP is unique in that it can by copyrighted. Different IP …