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The Hottest Dish in Real Estate
Television has changed the American city from top to bottom. In the days of Lucy and Ricky, antennas covered apartment rooftops. Then came the cable lines buried under the streets or snaking along utility poles. Now, a device once identified with the countryside is showing up in urban landscapes: the satellite dish."
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The Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents Part 1 of 2
The ability of patents to encourage innovation by granting exclusive rights is well-recognized. However, patents can serve an antithetical role as well by, in certain circumstances, deterring, rather than encouraging, innovation.
Enforcing Reverse Engineering Prohibitions in Shrink- and Click-wrap Licenses: A Report on Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, Inc.
The practice of "reverse engineering," whereby one company obtains the product of a competitor and works backwards "to divine the process which aided in its development or manufacture," has long been accepted as a legitimate (and sometimes wholly necessary) practice in the computer software marketplace. <i>Kewanee Oil Co. v Bicron Corp.</i>, 416 U.S. 470, 476 (1974).
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