SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Relation of Proprietary Rights in Software to Intellectual Property Law

A. What Are Intellectual Property Rights?

B. Whence Intellectual Property Rights?

C. Are There Difficulties of "Fit" Between Computer Programs and Traditional Intellectual Property Law?

D. Case Studies in Whether Patents Are Property Rights

Chapter 2: Copyright Protection of Software: "Writings of Authors" and "Original Works of Authorship"

Chapter 3: Copyright Protection of Software: Reproducing "Copies" of Works

Chapter 4: Copyright Protection of Software: Functionality, Constraints, and Merger of Idea and Expression

Chapter 5: Copyright Protection of Software: Noncode and Nonliteral Aspects of Computer Programs--When Does One Computer Program Infringe the Copyright in Another Computer Program Even Though the Codes Are Different?

Chapter 6: Copyright Protection Against Derivative-Work Versons of Computer Programs and Web Pages — Fair Use — Reverse Engineering

A. Interaction Between Protection Against Derivative Works and Rights of Customers

B. Hyperlinking and Framing

C. Pop-Up Advertising

D. Reproduction of Copies and Preparation of Derivative Works in Reverse Engineering

Chapter 7: Patent Protection of Software: Introduction to Software-Patent Cases

Chapter 8: Patent Protection of Software: Statutory Subject Matter in the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit

A. The Supreme Court Trilogy on Statutory Subject Matter

B. The Analysis of Statutory Subject Matter in the First Decade After the Trilogy

C. Statutory Subject Matter in and After 1994, the Year of the Algorithm in the Federal Circuit

D. Statutory Subject Matter in Computerized Methods of Doing Business

E. Appendix of Materials Relating to PTO Software Guidelines

Chapter 9: Patent Protection of Software: Patentability Issues Other Than Statutory Subject Matter

Chapter 10: Patent Protection of Software: Infringement Issues

Chapter 11: Preemption of State Law Protection of Software by Federal Intellectual Property Law

Chapter 12: Limitations on Rights, Misuse, and Abusive Enforcement of Rights

Chapter 13: Sui generis Protection of Software

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