United States: Divided Federal Circuit Makes Controversial Ruling That Nonliteral Elements Of "Cloned" Software Are Not Protectable Because It Was Based On Open Source And Other Known Material - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a district court ruling that the asserted nonliteral elements of a software program were not copyright protectable, in part...
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