A back door to protecting look and feel? [micro law]
R.H. Stern · IEEE Micro · 1993
Several court decisions concerning copyright law protection for the sequence, structure, and organization (SSO) of computer programs, alias 'protection or nonliteral program elements', alias 'look and feel', are discussed. The cases involved are Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc.; Whelan Associates, Inc. v. Jaslow Dental Laboratory, Inc.; Baker v. Selden; and Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc.>