Afaik, computer programs may not be protected in Europe by invention patents unless they require a dedicated hardware to run (which is obviously not applicable here as far as Bitwig is intended to work on any PC or Mac having any soundcard). Only the program code as such may be protected and, probably, some of the GUI elements that satisfy the criteria for trademarks. Given that, I see no basis for legal issues arising from the workflow or GUI layout similarities if the code is different.Loki Fuego wrote:I'm pretty sure that no-one have thought of this yet. I think that this is a very important issue to discuss for us, as we totally unrelated to it. We could come to some incredible conclusions here. Or even generate some really great advices for corporate lawyers.hibidy wrote:Has anyone mentioned the fact that since they worked for ableton, and since it's so similar there might be some legal issues?
However, my understanding of European IP law may be incomplete. I'm a patent attorney at my day job, but I work in Russia. Our law has some similarities to European but isn't completely written after it.
