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The statutory laws of intellectual property protection (Patents, Copyright and Trade Marks) together with the common laws of Confidential Information (Trade Secret) and contract law are all used in the United Kingdom to protect computer software in general, and computer programs in particular. The United Kingdom does not have any Unfair Competition legislation as is available in continental Europe, and the common law of Passing Off requires an essential feature of ‘misrepresentation made by a trade which causes damage to a competitor’.
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© 1986 Chris Edwards and Nigel Savage
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Hart, R. (1986). Software Protection. In: Information Technology & The Law. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08652-8_4
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