002006   Kumar A R (NO, , Plot No.491, Road No. 10 Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad-560 073, Email: ashokramkumar@gmail.com) : Practical and legal protection of computer databases. DESIDOC J Libr Inf Technol 2008, 28(5), 43-8.

In India, the legalities of computer software are often poorly understood by the programmers, authors, and the software industry. Indian software industry, being one of the top most foreign exchange earners, needs to take a close look and safeguard its market and intellect of its many programmers since computer database is a new type of intellectual property of growing importance in today's world. The Indian software industry has to change its orientation and stress the protection of intellectual property. Only by doing so, there will be a good scope for original product development. The article discusses the practical and legal methods of protecting computer databases from unauthorised copying and use, and areas of trade secrecy and non-disclosure.

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000041   Roberts G (Kilburn and Strode, 20 Red Lion Street, London, WCIR 4PJ, UK, Email: groberts@kstrode.co.uk) : Modern patenting - quantity and quality. J Intellect Prop Right 2007, 12(6), 562-71.

Current debate on 'quality patents' against the backdrop of a practical assessment of the considerations that go into drafting patent applications together with an example of how the drafting process might go forward, demonstrating the amount of care that needs to go into these documents and attempting to undermine the suggestion that there is a problem with the quality of patents. It also highlights the delicate balance that needs to be struck between commercial and legal requirements in a patent application, stresses that although numerous considerations need to be taken into account simultaneously, those considerations are manageable, and clearly shows the skill that the attorney must demonstrate.