source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the …This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

, especially copyright and patent. This expansion has caused overlap to occur between rights, thus allowing for an inefficient … individual right. The overlap between copyright and patent has especially proven to be problematic when applied to computer … software. A theoretical solution to this overlap is the exclusion of copyright protection to computer software, due to its …

The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should … internet, the experience of the existing US software patent, and the identification of the interested parties.In 2013 EU … initiative supporting the EU software patent.The paper's objective is to prove that the patent could become the most effective …

This paper focuses on the protection of software and e-commerce business methods from patent perspective. In particular … and with the aim of comparison, the paper examines national approaches for software and e-commerce business methods patent … under the South African Patent Act, the UK Patent Act, the US Patent Act and the European Patent Convention …