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Quantafying the value of patent exhaustion
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Volume 51 ,  Issue 11  (November 2008) table of contents
Remembering Jim Gray
COLUMN: Viewpoints table of contents
Pages: 27-29  
Year of Publication: 2008
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Pamela Samuelson  University of California, Berkeley
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Should patents confer power to restrict reuses and redistributions of products embodying the whole or essential parts of inventions?


INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING
      K.5.1 Hardware/Software Protection

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.1 Public Policy Issues
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce

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