A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision shedding doubt on the legality of reverse engineering could have a significant impact on the way software is commonly developed and improved. The legality of ...

Although the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a damages award for trade secret misappropriation and breach of a confidentiality agreement, it found that the district court erred in ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision could call into question a common practice among software companies: studying competitors’ products to improve their own offerings. The legality of this practice, called ...

Reversing software code is often perceived as a shady activity or straight-up hacking. But in fact, you can use reverse engineering ethically to research commercially available products, enhance ...

China is now accused of doing what Washington spent years trying to prevent: building its own version of the world’s most advanced chipmaking tool and edging closer to independence from foreign ...

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