• DocumentCode
    1527287
  • Title

    Protect your intellectual property

  • Author

    Oman, Paul W. ; Saeed, Talel

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID, USA
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    23
  • Lastpage
    24
  • Abstract
    An explanation is given of the four basic mechanisms for safeguarding intellectual property rights: copyrights, patent rights, trademarks, and trade secret laws. The extent to which they can be applied to computer hardware and software, and to what purpose and with what results, is explored.<>
  • Keywords
    government policies; industrial property; legislation; computer hardware; computer software; copyrights; intellectual property; patent rights; trade secret laws; trademarks; Circuits; Cloning; Copyright protection; Embedded software; Hardware; Intellectual property; Motion pictures; National electric code; Plagiarism; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Potentials, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0278-6648
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/45.52997
  • Filename
    52997