Computer Science - Ethics

CS 305, Fall 2017 – Homework #3

1. Find a URL for a patent violation case that was contested appeared in the last 5 years where a

penalty was assessed.

• What is the URL?

• What was the point of contention? Briefly

• What was the penalty?

2. Find a URL for a patent case where the patent was found to be invalid.

• What is the URL?

• What was the point of contention? Briefly

• Why was the patent declared invalid?

3. We talked about the 4 factors in determining fair use. Find a case in the last 5 years where

copying a program, for commercial use, was ruled fair use

• What is the URL?

• Describe which of the four factors was used in the justification.

Homework submission:

You are required to submit your homework in plain text, PDF or doc format.

You should attach your homework to the Dropbox entry by Wednesday at 11:59PM