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Math you can't use [electronic resource] : patents, copyright, and software / Ben Klemens.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.Description: ix, 181 p. : illOther title:
  • Math you cannot use
  • Math you can not use
  • Ma+h you can't use
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • K1519.C6 .K54 2006eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Optimal breadth -- From equations to software -- Patenting math -- Profiting from overbroad patents -- The decentralized software market -- Interoperability -- Protecting text -- Policy recommendations.
Summary: "Gathering persepectives from law, computer science, mathematics, and economics, examines the intellectual property issues surrounding computer software and suggests how patents might accommodate the unique structure of code and copyright for software could be more effectively implemented"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index.

Introduction -- Optimal breadth -- From equations to software -- Patenting math -- Profiting from overbroad patents -- The decentralized software market -- Interoperability -- Protecting text -- Policy recommendations.

"Gathering persepectives from law, computer science, mathematics, and economics, examines the intellectual property issues surrounding computer software and suggests how patents might accommodate the unique structure of code and copyright for software could be more effectively implemented"--Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.