WIPO Magazine issue November/December 2008 features an article on IP
and Software by Andrés Guadamuz GONZÁLEZ in view of the WIPO Latin
America and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Seminar on Intellectual Property
and Software in the 21st Century: Trends, Issues, Prospects held in San
José, Costa Rica, on August 19 and 20, 2008. It discusses the dual
character of software that is protected at the one hand by copyright
protection, and at the other hand by patent protection.