15 September/October 2000 M EDUCAUSE r e v i e w 14 EDUCAUSE r e v i e w M September/October 2000 Jason L. Frand is Assistant Dean and Director, Computing and Information Services, and Adjunct Professor of Information Systems, Anderson School of Management, UCLA . A Web discussion board to explore additional attributes of the information-age mindset has been set up at <http://www.anderson.ucla....

Recent twin decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal have shifted its stance on software patents significantly. In this paper, I explore the background to this shift and suggest that the mindset to software patents enshrined in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) is already being introduced ahead of formal amendment of the Europ...

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