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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Guess I touched a nerve. Sorry about dissing copyright law - it must be difficult to realize you've dedicated your career to a backwater area of IP law. If you don't realize what a joke copyright protection of software is, then I'm sorry for your clients.
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What an idiot you are. First, I am a registered patent attorney and my primary workload involves patent litigation. Yeah, that's real backwater. No money at all in patent litigation.
Second, copyrights are huge in protectng software. That is how you go after people who pirate copies of your code. Moreover, unlike patent protection, certain violations of copyrights can involve criminal penalties. The threat of criminal penalties is a big stick deterrant to copyright infringement caused by selling pirated copies of software. On the civil side, you also see prevailing party's attorney's fees awarded routinely in copyright cases, which is not common in patent infringement cases, and which is another big stick deterrant.
Third, most aspects of your client's code aren't protected by patents.
So do you see now dummy? Patents are used primarily to protect your client against a competitor. Copyrights are used to protect your client against pirated copies of their software. Both copyrights and patents are important types of intellectual property in the software industry.
Fourth, you are embarassing yourself by trying to talk about an area of the law about which you are ignorant. At least RT admits she knows nothing about IP.
