Increasingly the practice of computing involves legal issues. Patenting algorithms, domain name poaching, downloading MP3 files, and "re-using" HTML and graphics from web sites all raise questions in the domain of intellectual property law (which includes patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks). In the classroom, computer science educators often confront questions that have legal ra...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 235 I. UNHEALTHY SECRETS: PROPRIETARY PRICES AND ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD IMPLEMENTATION ......... 239 II. TRADE SECRECY AS A BUSINESS TOOL IN THE SEARCH INDUSTRY .................................................................................. 244 III. CLANDESTINELY COMMENSURATING COMPUTING IN CO...

The ANGELIC (ADF for kNowledGe Encapsulation of Legal Information from Cases) project provided a methodology for implementing a system to predict the outcome of legal cases based on a theory of the relevant domain constructed from precedent cases and other sources. The method has been evaluated in several domains, including US Trade Secrets Law. Previous systems in this domain were based on fac...

Trade secrets are part of intellectual property, because the information contains economic value, however, Secret Act does not specifically state what can be classified as with such customer lists. Customer lists that protected by trade secret laws in Indonesia. Therefore, legal efforts needed to protect this confidential from acts violation lead unfair business competition

Abstract The current policy vision for Europe’s digital future centres around facilitating the availability of data by means access, sharing, and portability rights. In existing legal framework, such rights are already foreseen in different instruments. actual practice, however, (horizontal) sharing is governed first place contracts. Currently, well-established business practices non-mandatory ...

This chapter contains the conclusions regarding first part of this study. It states that US and EU systems appear as two ‘twin’ legal orders presenting a lack coherency. outcome appears result legislators’ uncertainty purpose proper scope trade secrets protection.

R everse engineering has always been a lawful way to acquire trade secrets embodied in mass-marketed products. This longstanding principle—on which software engineers as well as engineers in other fields so frequently rely— could be significantly undermined depending on the outcome of a case now pending before the California Supreme Court. The precedent set in this case could, in turn, influenc...