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Europe: Open Market… Open Source
Citation
Forrest, HA and Stockton, K, Europe: Open Market Open Source, Duke Law & Technology Review, 28 pp. 1-12. ISSN 2328-9600 (2003) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2003 Duke Law & Technology Review; Heather Forrest.
Official URL: http://dltr.law.duke.edu/2003/11/03/europe-open-ma...
Abstract
The recent Proposed Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions takes the
European Community a step further down the road towards patents for computer software. If the goal of the
Proposed Directive is to facilitate market entry for individual programmers and small and medium enterprises--
as it must be within the framework of the European Treaty--then the European Commission should
not be expanding intellectual property rights in technology goods, which, by their very nature, will lose
value to the public long before their monopoly rights expire. Rather, the Commission should look to the
open source movement and other, more temporal means of protection to spur innovation and increase
Europe's competitiveness on the worldwide market for technology goods.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Law and Legal Studies |
Research Group: | Private law and civil obligations |
Research Field: | Intellectual property law |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Other law, politics and community services |
Objective Field: | Other law, politics and community services not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Forrest, HA (Associate Professor Heather Forrest) |
ID Code: | 100939 |
Year Published: | 2003 |
Deposited By: | Faculty of Law |
Deposited On: | 2015-06-03 |
Last Modified: | 2015-09-18 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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