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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

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Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. And the Supreme Court affirmed — holding that the “carefully crafted bargain” embodied by the US patent system occupies the entire space and thus preempts any further state action offering patent-like rights.

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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

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A key feature of the SAS product is that folks can write programs using SAS syntax in order to get certain results. WPL is a UK based software company who obtained several copies of SAS statistical software and made their own clone version by rewriting the code and by relying upon an early version of SAS that is not protected by copyright.