WIPO Magazine: IP and Software

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. GONZÁLEZ observes that the major patent granting authorities in the world slowly move to more willingness to grant patents for software inventions.