A Comparative Study on the Legal Protection for Computer Software Trade

  • Seo, Jung-Doo (School of Economics and Trade, Howon University)
  • Published : 2002.02.28

Abstract

This paper is to explore the direction of international software protection laws, either copyright or patent right, by examining the current situations in the United States, European countries, Asia including Korea and the WTO/TRIPs Agreement. According to the comparative legal systems, each court and office gives both copyrightability and patentability of software by a stronger and appropriate intellectual property protection system.

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