“…It has long been considered legal to copy a competitor's non-patentable product or noncopyrightable expression as long as it has been disclosed to the public. Protection of publicly disclosed ideas under state unfair competition laws is limited to protection against source confusion and does not extend protection more generally against misappropriation by an imitator (Wiley (1989), Lichtman (1997)). …”
Section: Legal Protection For Software and Databasesmentioning
“…It has long been considered legal to copy a competitor's non-patentable product or noncopyrightable expression as long as it has been disclosed to the public. Protection of publicly disclosed ideas under state unfair competition laws is limited to protection against source confusion and does not extend protection more generally against misappropriation by an imitator (Wiley (1989), Lichtman (1997)). …”
Section: Legal Protection For Software and Databasesmentioning
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