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Subject: [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
From: dan at geer.org (dan at geer.org)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:28:07 -0400
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:19:16 EDT." <4F9815F4.1030003@blu.org>

If I was an attorney in this case, I think that I would press
that it is the "I" rather than the "AP" that matters, and
get into the area of cases where a UI, rather than an API,
has been litigated.  Wilmer Hale, a firm of note in this area,
has a possibly useful page at

http://www.wilmerhale.com/publications/whPubsDetail.aspx?publication=878

--dan

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- [Discuss] can you copyright an API?
  - From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)

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