CK - Washington. IEEE-USA filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to defend reverse engineering of software on cert of Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, Inc., 320 F.3d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2003) from the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC.
Among several arguments supporting the supremacy of federal intellectual property law, the IEEE argues that the recent Bowers decision effectively rewards creativity in crafting license agreements at the expense of the essential tenets of copyright law.
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