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Illinois district court okays code-passing for software clean room process
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- May 20 2008
Just as a semiconductor clean room aims to exclude airborne particles that could contaminate wafer layers, so the legal software clean room has sought to protect computer software developers from contaminating “access” to earlier works they might be charged with copying
Secrets easily leaked by friend or foe in publicly filed .PDF documents
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- October 12 2007
Disclosures to government regulators have always posed risks to trade secrets and other proprietary information
District Court holds software transfer not a license, okays downstream eBay auction under first sale doctrine
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- July 15 2008
Rejecting the authority of a trio of more recent Ninth Circuit cases on the ground that their holdings could not be reconciled with an earlier Ninth Circuit decision, a Washington District Court has held a transfer of computer software to represent a sale, not a license
Effects of recent rulings on the enforceability of open source licenses
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- July 7 2009
Increasingly, software licensors are opting to license their software under non-traditional license arrangements
Shrinking prospects for private trade secret actions under the CFAA
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- April 1 2009
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. 1030, was enacted in 1984 as a criminal statute, but was subsequently amended in the 1990s to allow for private causes of action for damage to a “protected computer.”
Federal Circuit validates open source licenses
- Fenwick & West LLP
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- USA
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- October 17 2008
Although open source software licenses have been used for years, there have been relatively few court decisions on open source issues
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